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by joshuaheard 2891 days ago
The link in the article to the institute was broken. Here is an updated link: https://www.comingtounderstanding.com/

Interesting the institute calls itself "Ammonius", not A.M. Monius. And the author of "Coming to Understanding" is clearly identified as Marc Sanders.

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> And the author of "Coming to Understanding" is clearly identified as Marc Sanders.

The Slate article is a republishing of a Lingua Franca article from 2001. Author identification was presumably only added after the author's cover was blown.

The 2000 and 2007 versions of the document don't mention his name. The acknowledgements in the 2010 version mention his brother, Dr. Michael Sanders, and the included review by Zimmerman mentions the author's name.

If you look at archive.org, you can see even in 2012(after Marc Sanders had passed), the website did not out the author: https://web.archive.org/web/20120213033702/https://www.comin...