not really, ideas come in stages, you have intuition that something is there, realization of what it is and formalization of how it works. once you start refle

not really, ideas come in stages, you have intuition that something is there, realization of what it is and formalization of how it works. once you start reflecting on the topic, your knowledge may or may not advance but the formal structure of the inquiry marks it at least as something that was studied and talked about systematically and not incidentally, so it becomes a partial view on a subject more than a unsubstantiated belief. take gravity: even if we are way ahead of newton and galileo in terms of understanding, we'd be hard pressed at calling them fool for not understanding gravitational waves or relativity or spooky action at distance, because they started the research systematically instead of postulating that each body has a "natural place" it tends toward.