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The hypothesis is just common sense. If an academic wants to claim that common sense is wrong then it is up to him to provide evidence. I look forward to his
by mrjangles 5y ago
The hypothesis is just common sense. If an academic wants to claim that common sense is wrong then it is up to him to provide evidence.
I look forward to his next article where he debunks the myth that doors are for keeping people out. After all, not all doors have locks, and if the author can't find any texts from the 15th century that discuss keeping people out with doors then surely his hypothesis is proven, right?
- jgilias 5y agoThe only common sense bit about stairs is that they were likely made to ascend to places and descend from them. Everything else is conjecture. It'd be the same if people were dead convinced that doors were made to open a certain way to keep the right hand free for attacking people behind the door. There may actually be some doors somewhere made that way for those reasons, but that would be a silly belief to hold for all doors, wouldn't it?
- mrjangles 5y agoI think perhaps what is missing is an understanding of statistics. There are thousands of doors and stairways in castles. If the majority of stairways all go one way, or if the majority of doors all open one way in castles, then it is statistically impossible that this is by chance. There has to be an obvious reason. A reason obvious enough that most people building the castles saw it without too much thought.