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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I don't generally see much knowledge disappearing if a particular book is hard to find or unavailable. [...] Enlighten me.
Helen
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It doesn't need to be just facts. It could be the particularly effective argument, or the the example of an effective way to express ideas, or the lessons of powerfully expressed, world-view changing metaphor.
The 'knowledge' that would disappear may be precisely the same 'knowledge' that is lost when you learn the story of a book through Cliff's Notes or other summary, rather than actually reading the source material.