Dear all,
Thank you very much to Pedro for asking me to suggest a discussion for
the list and to everyone else for indulging me. As a historian, I have
learnt that questions I naively thought were quite simple have turned
out to be very complicated indeed. The purpose of history, I
Dear James and colleagues,
I have a few comments to the discussion colophon. First, it seems difficult
to explain something which has already happened. For example, one cannot
test statistically whether what happened could also have been expected. In
the tradition, one distinguished more