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by chrisco255 1017 days ago
The only reason you can paraphrase Thomas Jefferson is because his words were archived a long time ago, and the archives have survived all this time.
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Sorry; I did not make my point clear. Were they his words or is the association made up?

Without direct observation it’s hearsay.

What’s the point of maintaining associations we can’t verify? The truth that Jefferson stated such is only hallucination for us.

The value is in the awareness of the realities mechanisms, not the association with Jefferson.