2nd February 2006, 1:35 PM
How this affected him is... irrelevent.
What is relevant is he labelled it as nonfiction. Society puts trust in that sort of label. Whether it is valid to do so or not, he should have been aware of this and labelled it accordingly.
I do not care what his motives were. They are irrelevent.
What is relevant is he labelled it as nonfiction. Society puts trust in that sort of label. Whether it is valid to do so or not, he should have been aware of this and labelled it accordingly.
I do not care what his motives were. They are irrelevent.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)