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In response to "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" by mara

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

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Feb 17 '10, 14:17

there have been disctinct tribes of people, for example, and so probably they have had different ways of looking at things for just as long.

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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

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