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(1999) Alfred Tarski and the Vienna circle, Dordrecht, Springer.
In 1931 Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman published a delightfully silly history of England entitled 1066 and All That 2, as they said, "comprising, all the parts you can remember including one hundred and three good things, five bad kings, and two genuine dates".3 History, they tell us, is not what you think; it is what you can remember. So their history is simplified and garbled, and the moral point is put front and center: every development is described as a good thing or a bad thing, a good king or a bad king. What makes 1066... comic is the cleverness of its insight into what confusions people actually have and the antic candor in giving us the moral point without wasting any time on dates, motivations, or any other such confusing historical details.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0689-6_6
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Creath, R. (1999)., Carnap's move to semantics: gains and losses, in J. Woleński & E. Köhler (eds.), Alfred Tarski and the Vienna circle, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 65-76.
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