> -----Original Message----- > From: David van Ooijen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: LSA Quarterly, leading on to Historical Documentation > > What I learnt is to never trust anything somebody else writes or says, > to always go back to the primary sources and to always try and figure > out myself what they mean. Help in interpreting these is always > accepted, but not neccecarily trusted. And to have an open mind as to > where you find primary sources or what a primary source can be.
Seems an appropriately skeptical and (dare I say) scholarly approach to me. ..But also weigh primary sources with a similar degree of skepticism. There have always been agendas to promote. Eugene Scientist first/Musician second (or sixth) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
