Any smart people around here?

Argo

Lifer
Apr 8, 2000
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Need help from all of you Humanities and Social Science people around here. I'm writing a paper, and there is this one word, that would perfectly fit in, but I can't quite recall it. The word describes historians or people who judge the past based on the moral laws of the present. Now, I think the word is Wiggish historians, but can somebody confirm this.
 

Argo

Lifer
Apr 8, 2000
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Typo, that was supposed to be Any :( It's 2:13am over here, so give me a break.
 

Stark

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Whiggish \Whig"gish\, a. Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.

Whig (hwg, wg)
n.

A member of an 18th- and 19th-century British political party that was opposed to the Tories.
A supporter of the war against England during the American Revolution.
A 19th-century American political party formed to oppose the Democratic Party and favoring high tariffs and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.

Doesn't sound like what you're going for.

Now let's see if there are any dumb people here...
If you're a waiter and like good tips, you probably don't want to wait on a niggard!
 

BoberFett

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Oct 9, 1999
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Of course there's smart people here! Everyone on the internet is a genius. And they all took an online IQ test to prove it.