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Ambrose’s Silent Reading as Zombie Idea

  • September 20, 2013
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Every field has its ‘zombie ideas’, ideas based on disproved notions (and so are not ‘alive’), but whose influence persists in large part due to their intuitive appeal (and so they aren’t ‘dead’). In the early history of reading, we … Continue reading

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