• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What numerical value best estimates a “trove”? More than fifty? Five hundred to ten thousand? Over a million? Who’s working on this?

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      6 days ago

      I think the definition is relative to the scarcity of known information, so three ancient manuscripts by Diogenes would be a trove since we know very little of his ideas, but three manuscripts by Kant, though intriguing, would not be a trove (unless maybe they contained stuff totally different from the work we do have).