David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 doc <doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
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.