Evelyn SkyeUnless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places.
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When people refer to a library as a “museum,” they are not wrong. The use of the word “museum” in this context is an example of how libraries and books can be thought of as static and different than other things that move and change over time. This is the key point: the library is not static. To understand why this is true, we need to look at the concept of logical fallacy we discussed earlier: post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Post hoc means after this; therefore because it happened after this. Propterea means accordingly; therefore because it happened accordingly. When someone says that a library is like a museum, he’s saying that the library is like something else; therefore because it is like something else, it must be like a museum.
Source: The Crowns Game
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