Word: oakeshott
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...matter: new Irans will keep popping up (in our minds) regardless. The empirical world can do little to dampen the appeal of metaphor, since it deals in what Historian Michael Oakeshott calls "practical" or "didactic history," a species of pseudo history in which what passes for analysis is the waving of icons...