posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 15/06/2006
(A) ROFL. Priceless.
(B) But, is it true that autodidact refers to "working things out from first principles" and not "working things out without guidance or information given by another person"? The first hit on google is a word of the day, the quote being "Consider the autodidact in Sartre's Nausea, who is somewhat unbelievably working his way alphabetically through an entire library."

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