David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com:
Google books is fine, as is google itself. Neither is a substitute for common sense. I'll take the subjectivity of human common sense over the arithmetic of search engines any day.
Certainly. But when someone seems not to be engaging it, it can be useful to wave the actual book (or a scan), not merely say "there's a book."
- d.
You are missing the point. I should not have to. If we have reasonably trustworthy information on something that commonsense tells us has some level of enduring significance, then finding a book should be unnecessary.
Commonsense, where it is more than just one person's view, should be sufficient.