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Limits of Scholarly Editing.
The goals of scholarly editing are limited by what can be accomplished in reality. What can be hoped for or aimed at may be the inspiration, but not the goal, of scholarly editing. Well-argued disagreements among scholars demonstrate that variation in interests, methods, and values for documents, texts, works, history and art, both place perfection out of bounds and valuable triumphs within reach. Textual evidence requires editorial presentation, which requires intellectual added value. Just as there are many ways to get it wrong, there are many ways to get it right.
Added 2026-04-21