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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2024-11-05, day precision Aliases: lost-book

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Lost Books

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. The answer is this. When you write something, you're actually manifesting your thought. Right? But your thought comes from your personality. Okay? So..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. The answer is this. When you write something, you're actually manifesting your thought. Right? But your thought comes from your personality. Okay? So..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable (2024-11-05, day precision).

Most connected source reading: Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable.

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Historiographical possibility discussed in the 2024-11-05 lecture.

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Jiang acknowledges the traditional explanation that Aristotle wrote his own books, the books were lost, and students later reassembled his thought from memory, while stressing that no original Aristotelian writing survives.

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