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Flat Earth is true in the most important sense, which is our direct experience. Although we regularly use technology which relies on the standard scientific und
by trees101 5y ago
Flat Earth is true in the most important sense, which is our direct experience. Although we regularly use technology which relies on the standard scientific understanding of the Earth and Solar System, our everyday experience and all our planning is based on a mental model of a flat earth.
When you go for a walk, you act as if the earth is flat. When you plan a journey, you act as if the earth is flat. It is a valid approximation that works.
I think that some of the rise of Flat Earth belief, is a rebellion against being told very strange, abstract and foreign things that directly contradict our everyday experience.
In this sense, Flat Earth theory is "true" in a limited Phenomenological sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0i-4m2L0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0i-4m2L0g
- dlp211 5y agoThis is the difference between flat earth and flat Earth. Flat Earther's argue the latter, not the former, though they do use the former as "proof" of the latter.