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Not sure if you're arguing from an epistemological or objective basis, but I'll assume the latter. We know that our knowledge better describes the results we r
by ethbr0 5y ago
Not sure if you're arguing from an epistemological or objective basis, but I'll assume the latter.
We know that our knowledge better describes the results we reliably reproduce in the world around us.
We have knowledge about things that our ancestors did not.
If that doesn't constitute "knowing more than they did," I'm not sure what does.
- hirako2000 5y agoWe don't know that. All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time. We have a tendency to assume we know more than at any other time before on the basis that we know more than our rather recent ancestors.
- CRConrad 5y ago> All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time. What does that mean, if not "we know more than they did"?