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ProfessorGAC

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7. An Apt Metaphor

Reply to DrFunkenstein (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:36 PM

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Because much of orginalism requires being able to read the minds of people dead 275 years, because in many cases those "oracles" didn't write exactly what is claimed.
The originalists rely on "knowing" what the founders were thinking when they wrote what they did, even though that is not what the put to paper.
Orginalism is a pseudointellectual fraud.

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