I’ve never read Isaiah Berlin’s famous essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” but I’ve seen it referenced to the point that I don’t feel much guilt in citing it for purposes both mercenary and rhetorical. Taken from a quote by the poet Archilochus (“The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing”), the title refers to a distinction Berlin draws among thinkers: the hedgehogs, who interpret the world through a singular idea, and the foxes, whose views are informed by a wide, various range of experience.
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