The likelihood of a text surviving tends towards zero given enough time
Before antiquity we often only have quoted fragments to look at
The early episodes of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps is a pretty good introduction to how little we know about pre-socratic thinkers especially
Surviving corpora can often be only hundreds of characters long
The likelihood of a text surviving tends towards zero given enough time
Before antiquity we often only have quoted fragments to look at
The early episodes of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps is a pretty good introduction to how little we know about pre-socratic thinkers especially
Surviving corpora can often be only hundreds of characters long