Every constellation takes its own model to be the world and files other constellations as peripheral parts of itself; even a civilisation that translated everything studied foreign ideas only to complete its own model, so a digest that maps a book into our plexes will by default read the book as confirmation unless it is built to let the book change a core claim.

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Every world history is really a somebody-centric story framed by a master narrative that puts itself at the center.
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When Muslim scholars delved into Greek thought, they weren't looking to meet the Greeks halfway. They were studying how Greek thought might help them complete the Islamic model of reality.
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They understood their model of the world to be not some model, but the world itself. That's everyone's understanding of their own model.
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Most of the monads knew of the other monads, but situated them as peripheral regions of what it saw as the world, which is to say, as peripheral parts of itself.
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The inhabitants of Dar al-Islam had every reason to believe their world was the world.
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there was no reason to doubt that each society's restoration narrative was not just a model of the world, but was the world.
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It's just that various Westerners could now exercise their right to trade freely in this territory, a right that was, within their own network of meaning, sacred.
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If we don't start the calendar there, it's only because dating systems around the world were too firmly entrenched by the time Columbus set sail.

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