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The public thing
Where does our word “republic” come from? What does res publica mean in classical Latin? What is a “public thing,” a “common wealth”? Is it transient? Can we lose it?
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The TLL is much more than a list of words to be sorted. It rests on a human understanding of the world to describe how words were used and what they meant in antiquity. Short experiments with AI demonstrate that current AI lacks the originality of thought required to write TLL articles.
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Why can’t AI finish the TLL?
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