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Actually, Oxfordians work in exactly the opposite direction
from your description. Looney did not start with Oxford, he
discovered Oxford after asking himself, quite reasonably,
what sort of person could have written the plays. Then this
hypothesis was tested against further evidence, like any
reasonable intellectual inquiry. The remarkable thing is
how well it stands up, and how the evidence keeps accumulating,
rather than diminishing.Sure, there are problems. There are problems with Darwinian
evolutionary theory too; so later thinkers, eg Stephen Jay Gould,
refine it. That's the state of play in Oxfordland today.Posted by Professor Mike on April 17, 1997 at 14:21:26
In Reply to "Precisely!" posted by Thersites on April 16, 1997 at 01:37:13
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