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In response to "If you go back far enough people didn't sail over the horizon. -- nm" by Ender

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

Posted by mara Feb 17 '10, 14:07

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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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