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In response to "I bet most people just didn't know, or have an opinion -- nm" by Roger More

It think it would have an underlying assumption, not consciously thought about, if you go back far enough. -- nm

Posted by mara Feb 17 '10, 13:50

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I'm not sure. People who used boats to sail over the horizon would probably have assumed the world was round, for example - Roger More Feb 17, 13:59 8
- If you go back far enough people didn't sail over the horizon. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:02 7
  - Then the IM comes into play. -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:07
  - Exactly. I wonder if people are so caught up in debunking the medieval flat earth myth that they're not taking a long enough view. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 14:07 5
    - I'm not sure you can ever say "if you go back far enough, everyone had the same perspective". Humans have had different languages for as long as - Roger More Feb 17, 14:17 3
      - You go back far enough and there was only one human. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:21 2
        
        When human language was first developed, its speakers wouldn't have been considered human. Monkeys have language -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:30 1
        
        That doesn't matter. At one point there had to be only one human, and tautologically all humans must have believed the same thing. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:37
    - Yeah, we also totally need to debunk that whole galileo/earth-orbits-the-sun thing, too -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:10

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