| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Too many people think ideas or institutions were invented once, usually ex nihilo, mostly in current form if not fully evolved, at a discrete and identifiable time and place, by discrete and identifiable persons. [ Let???s call this error ???Athenaian genesis??? after the goddess Athena, born fully formed. ] There are 2 versions of AG : historical-Whiggish and geographical-occidentalist.
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