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Very Intresting Archeological Find
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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Lang" data-source="post: 968540" data-attributes="member: 65699"><p>Let me refer you to Hugh's earlier statement. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's begging the question and an erroneous statement. We don't know what knowledge the ancients had, so it is a fallacy to claim that we have learned 90% of all that we know since 1960. Who knows what the ancients had stored in Alexandria when it was razed by the muslems? Who knows what further great unpublished mathematical works were lost to antiquity? Shoot, even relatively modern mathematicians such as Gauss had knowledge that was unpublished for political reasons, and while some of it has been rediscovered, an unknown amount is lost.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's just the tip of the iceberg. With so many unknowns, how can we make a definitive statement quantifying knowledge? That's rhetorical, as we cannot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Lang, post: 968540, member: 65699"] Let me refer you to Hugh's earlier statement. That's begging the question and an erroneous statement. We don't know what knowledge the ancients had, so it is a fallacy to claim that we have learned 90% of all that we know since 1960. Who knows what the ancients had stored in Alexandria when it was razed by the muslems? Who knows what further great unpublished mathematical works were lost to antiquity? Shoot, even relatively modern mathematicians such as Gauss had knowledge that was unpublished for political reasons, and while some of it has been rediscovered, an unknown amount is lost. That's just the tip of the iceberg. With so many unknowns, how can we make a definitive statement quantifying knowledge? That's rhetorical, as we cannot. [/QUOTE]
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