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Uncommon card · Science
Hippolyte Taine, an Uncommon card
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French historian, critic and philosopher.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Hippolyte Taine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hippolyte Taine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Literary historicism as a ______ movement has been said to originate with him.
Answer
critical. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. From the Hippolyte Taine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Monique Wittig. Monique Wittig 72 · Hippolyte Taine 69 · Giovanni Schiaparelli 66 · Agricultural machinery 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
- Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.
- Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hippolyte Taine article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Hippolyte Taine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hippolyte Taine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
