Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 21 AIL 2038 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Ten Questions Cannot Settle
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The idea
A sample of ten across three passages cannot show the paper's full range. No poetry other than a sonnet appears, no fiction appears at all, and no passage later than the eighteenth century. The method held here and that is evidence, not proof.
In practice
No fiction, no modern passage.
Where people slip
Evidence, and not proof.
Your place on the trail
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