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> Direct observation of contemporary societies at the threshold of
>  widespread literacy has not assisted our understanding of how such
>  literacy altered ancient Greek society, in particular its political
>  culture. The discovery of what Goody has called the “enabling effects”
>  of literacy in contemporary societies tends to seduce the observer
>  **into confusing often rudimentary knowledge of how to read with popular
>  access to important books and documents**: this confusion is then
>  projected onto ancient societies. “In ancient Greece,” Goody writes,
>  “alphabetic reading and writing was important for the development of
>  political democracy.”
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Can someone explain the bold part? The part "confusing often rudimentary knowledge" sounds grammatically wrong for me, and because of the part I cannot get the meaning of the whole sentence.