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→"Demonstrate" versus "show," "illustrate," "present"
Very few museum exhibits of any kind demonstrate anything. Certainly a diorama that shows humans and dinosaurs coexisting does not demonstrate that they coexisted. Nor does a case of replicas of skeletons arranged in succession [http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/ Hall of Human Evolution] at the American Museum of Natural History "demonstrate" that humans evolved, nor does an orrery "demonstrate" that the planets move around the sun.
Very few museum exhibits of any kind demonstrate anything. Certainly a diorama that shows humans and dinosaurs coexisting does not demonstrate that they coexisted. Nor does a case of replicas of skeletons arranged in succession [http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/ Hall of Human Evolution] at the American Museum of Natural History "demonstrate" that humans evolved, nor does an orrery "demonstrate" that the planets move around the sun.
Exhibits "show" or "illustrate" or "present..." or "exhibit." They don't "demonstrate." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:23, 29 May 2007 (EDT)
Exhibits "show" or "illustrate" or "present..." or "exhibit." They don't "demonstrate." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:23, 29 May 2007 (EDT)
*Thanks. Fair enough for me. Now please demonstate your superlative editing skills by actually adding something about the place, rather than concentrating on debunking quotes, okay? ;-) --[[User:TK|<small>Sysop-</small>TK]] <sub>[[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]]</sub> 05:55, 29 May 2007 (EDT)