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I asked if there's abundant evidence for monophasic sleep in historical writings. Or do we just assume it was monophasic, because there's not much written about
by scotty79 2mo ago
I asked if there's abundant evidence for monophasic sleep in historical writings. Or do we just assume it was monophasic, because there's not much written about sleep either way?
- layer8 2mo agoYou were asking for historical backing. Sleep is definitely abundantly mentioned in historical writing, while segmented sleep is not. I take the absence of the latter as historical backing.
- fittingopposite 2mo agoAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- jnfnfkfkt 2mo ago[dead]
- scotty79 2mo agoMonophasic sleep is mentioned, or just sleep is mentioned without hints on whether it was monophasic of polyphasic?
- DemocracyFTW2 2mo agoThis is tantamount to saying that the Egyptians from the 18th Dynasty onwards did have horses but no black or white ones because while the historical records concerning warfare did mention horses a lot, nowhere is there a mention of black or white horses. I conclude the ancient Egyptians only had brown horses q.e.d.