I posted this here because I had posted it elsewhere and I personally thought it to be funny and interesting. On a deeper level, one of my autistic obssessions lately has been the Hellenistic Intellectual Traditions. I feel like Ancient Greece was an unusually flourishing context for a plurality and originality of original truth seeking, and that many later authors who think Ancient Greeks to be antiquated have failed to contextualize and interpret correctly these older texts. In particular, the Ancient Greeks were fascinated by language and by words, and many of the words they used do not have a direct translation outside of that intellectual context.
Furthermore, I remember being introduced in a philosophy class at École Polytechnique many years ago to the concept of History of Ideas, how one of the philosophical pursuits is to trace and connect different versions of similar ideas through time. There is something interesting about thinking of ELK in the lenses of different intellectual traditions over time that were also investigating similar concepts. I do think exploring how the Ancient Greeks might have approached this problem to be a potential avenue of ideas for those interested in making progress on ELK.
Why calling it Eliciting Latent Knowledge when ἀληθεουργία was right there?
I posted this here because I had posted it elsewhere and I personally thought it to be funny and interesting. On a deeper level, one of my autistic obssessions lately has been the Hellenistic Intellectual Traditions. I feel like Ancient Greece was an unusually flourishing context for a plurality and originality of original truth seeking, and that many later authors who think Ancient Greeks to be antiquated have failed to contextualize and interpret correctly these older texts. In particular, the Ancient Greeks were fascinated by language and by words, and many of the words they used do not have a direct translation outside of that intellectual context.
Furthermore, I remember being introduced in a philosophy class at École Polytechnique many years ago to the concept of History of Ideas, how one of the philosophical pursuits is to trace and connect different versions of similar ideas through time. There is something interesting about thinking of ELK in the lenses of different intellectual traditions over time that were also investigating similar concepts. I do think exploring how the Ancient Greeks might have approached this problem to be a potential avenue of ideas for those interested in making progress on ELK.