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Great thinkers of old lacked awareness of experimentation and thought that have come along since. That and being a genius was easy when the majority were funct
by oreegumee 3y ago
Great thinkers of old lacked awareness of experimentation and thought that have come along since.
That and being a genius was easy when the majority were functionally illiterate disciples of the religion they grew up in.
- wahern 3y agoGödel lived from 1906 to 1978. You also seem to be rationalizing an assumption that there were no atheists thousands of years ago, and yet there were. There's no reason to believe that our critical thinking powers are any stronger today than they were in the past few thousand years, certainly when it comes to metaphysics. To me, at least, the relative prevalence of various beliefs through recored history suggests something very different about how people of any period, including our own, find and adopt knowledge.
- oreegumee 3y ago[dead]