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Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of ancestry and family history.
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Beware of going down that rabbit hole. You may find yourself eaten by the rabbit at the end of your chase.
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The method I propose to explore in this book is designed to help us look at ideas from a practical point of view—to look at what ideas do rather than at whether the judgements they figure in are true—in order to see how exactly our ideas are bound up with our needs and concerns. This method, which I propose to call pragmatic genealogy, consists in telling partly fictional, partly historical narratives exploring what might have driven us to develop certain ideas in order to discover what these id
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