I am reading a newly published text book called Early Modern Philosophy by John Grey and Jonathan Head, in an attempt to fill in some of the wide gaping holes in my knowledge. It includes the following quotation from Henry More’s The Immortality of the Soul which made me chuckle. Rather than giving an exact page number, a date or even a title, More simply writes “… as Artistotle has somewhere noted …”. Perhaps I will cite like that from now on and if anyone questions me, I shall say, well, Henry More thought that kind of vague citation was fine; who am I to argue?
A potential example in which any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental: A respected scientist attributed a demise of humour in our modern era on “the authoritarian Left” in some online video, which prompted me to question the rationale for their entire thesis. ‘Nough said.
Refs:
Grey, J. and Head, J., 2024. Early Modern Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, p.24.
More, H., 1962. The Immortality of the Soul. In: J. Flesher, ed. The Philosophical Writings of Henry More. New York: Philosophical Library.