On Dec 28, 2008, at 3:27 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
The sole useful alternative view, would be that *both* report and counter-report are secondary sources. The simple fact that a person is speaking about their own work, doesn't make their words primary for that, it depends on the context in which they are speaking.
I.E. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
For the most part, we'd treat anything by Person X as a primary source for [[Person X]]. I mean, if we want to make an explicit exception for a category, that's fine, but right now, nothing I can see in NOR even slightly undermines the idea that an article by Person X is a primary source for [[Person X]].
-Phil