Wiki source code of Reading, secondary

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1 The term "secondary reading" covers more or less the same meaning as the term "[[error>>doc:stemmatology.Error.WebHome]]" in textual criticism, but may be preferred to it for reasons of clarity.
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3 Any [[variant reading>>doc:stemmatology.Reading, variant.WebHome]] used for the purpose of classification of a textual tradition should be[[ polarised>>doc:stemmatology.Polarisation.WebHome]]: if on a certain variant location there are two variant readings A and B, one of them should be the [[primary reading>>doc:stemmatology.Reading, primary.WebHome]] (the original or ancestral reading) and the other the secondary reading (the error). This terminology is influenced by [[cladistics>>doc:stemmatology.Cladistics.WebHome]] and is less vague than the traditional terminology used in textual criticism. Contrary to the term "error", the term "secondary reading" is not absolute, but relative: reading B can be secondary vis-à-vis reading A, but primary vis-à-vis reading C. In addition, not all secondary readings are linguistic mistakes, a correction can be a secondary reading, indeed any type of change (or innovation) can be a secondary reading.
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7 **In other languages**
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9 DE: sekundäre Lesart
10 FR: leçon secondaire
11 IT: lezione secondaria
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13 [[CM>>doc:stemmatology.Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum.Contributors.WebHome]]