Comments on: Ideas http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2009/10/15/ideas/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daniel http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2009/10/15/ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-134093 Daniel Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:57 +0000 http://www.tinmanic.com/?p=4085#comment-134093 He certainly does come across as a nutter. And, from your description of the premise of his book, a pretty crappy historian, too. He also doesn't seem to grasp that new ideas and insights and inventions are often arrived at by <i>daydreaming and introspection</i> over what has been empirically gathered from outside. He certainly does come across as a nutter. And, from your description of the premise of his book, a pretty crappy historian, too.

He also doesn’t seem to grasp that new ideas and insights and inventions are often arrived at by daydreaming and introspection over what has been empirically gathered from outside.

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