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Jan 17 2009
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Kerry Hollingsworth of the Reformational Publishing Project has digitally scanned Herman Dooyeweerd's "A New Critique of Theoretical Thought." Unfortunately, there are serious problems with the scanning. This online version of the New Critique can only be used with great caution. It is not accurate enough to be cited. Any quotations from this version must be checked with the original version. I note that the online .pdf version of The New Critique has Volume II before Volume I. Has anyone else complained about that? It is confusing. I hope that this will be corrected. Is there a .doc version? an .html version?
Some of the scanning is inaccurate. I have not of course had time to do a page by page comparison. But here are some examples of problems. NC II, 455-456 has only been partially scanned in, and what there is of page 456 is crooked. Other quirks: The font is not consistent. See for example, the strange formatting of some numbers in the Table of Contents for Vol. III.
I also note that some of the scanning appears to have resulted in many wrong transcriptions of words, particularly foreign words, but also some English words. That is a more serious problem. Some examples of these errors that leaped out at me are the Greek `ousia,' which is mis-spelled as `ofwia' on NC III, 4. On the same page, the paragraph beginning with the words "In the final hypostasis of its deification.." is incomprehensible because the Greek word `arché' has not been reproduced. It appears as `der;'--there is an obvious font problem here. On NC III, 5, the whole Greek quotation in the first paragraph is illegible. On III, 6, `ousia' is shown as `oinia' which is of course incorrect. Line 4 of NC II, 6 mis-spells the English word `changes' as `c anges'--the `h' is missing. And so on and so on.
I am grateful that this work has been placed online, but more work needs to be done to make it reliable.