yes, plato was pretty early in the philosophy story and napoleon pretty late in the conquest story,
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but it's not up to us to turn that into some sort of bogus global ordering of events
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it's simple-minded to say this is more time than that when the stories are very different. like the people who say everything is utility
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@VesselOfSpirit You can only rank historical events. There's no sense in measuring the time between them. History is ordinal.
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