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In response to "It think it would have an underlying assumption, not consciously thought about, if you go back far enough. -- nm" by mara

I'm not sure. People who used boats to sail over the horizon would probably have assumed the world was round, for example

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Feb 17 '10, 13:59

Plus, you never know what kind of weird shapes people would think of to explain things

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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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