People consistently underestimate how gradually important ideas took shape. In their final form these ideas seem obvious. But empirically they weren't obvious even to those smart enough to discover them.
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Perhaps the most profound (and for that reason least remarked) example of this phenomenon is the notion of number. In human prehistory, this notion remained vague and inchoate for countless millennia. We have long since forgotten its breathtaking and revolutionary abstractness.
9:25 AM - 15 Mar 2019
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