Timeline for What does "that most limited of all specialists" mean here?
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 21:06 | comment | added | Ken Shirriff | I think there's also irony here: a well-rounded generalist is normally considered the exact opposite of a specialist. Fitzgerald, though, flips this around and categorizes the generalist as a type of specialist, and the most limited type at that. | |
| Apr 11, 2018 at 3:08 | vote | accept | Pasta Addict | ||
| Apr 10, 2018 at 22:06 | comment | added | auden | @PastaAddict, the author is saying that "jack of all trades, useful at none" (or their phrasing of it) is not in fact an epigram, for the reason that "life is much more successfully looked at from a single window", which I interpret as "referring to the fact that it's easier to be able to see only one perspective on an issue as opposed to being able to see multiple views on an issue." So if I understand your comment right, the epigram indicates what was stated in the previous sentence, not what follows the emdash. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 19:53 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | I disagree with the author/narrator's implication that broad rather than deep knowledge is useless, but you can have an upvote for a good explanation of his meaning. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 6:15 | comment | added | Pasta Addict | Thank you so much for the detailed explanation, heather! So I gather that "limited" implies that the well-rounded man has less knowledge than other specialists, rather than he is a more precious being. But regarding the second question, I thought that the epigram was what follows after the emdash (life is much more successfully viewed from a single window), but reading you explanation, I came to think that this wasn't the case. Then, does the "epigram" indicate what was stated in the previous sentence (the well-rounded man is the most limited specialist), not what follows after the emdash? | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 1:45 | history | answered | auden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |