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    1. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Apr 6

      "Washington Post:" Aristotle Is to Blame for Charles Murray http://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-aristotle-is-to-blame-for-charles-murray/ …pic.twitter.com/kJhmlcOp8W

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      Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Apr 6

      From my 2003 interview with Charles Murray about his book "Human Accomplishment:" https://www.upi.com/QA-Charles-Murrays-Human-Accomplishment/63221066339488/ …pic.twitter.com/PH9JFSHNcD

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        1. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Apr 6

          Chris Dixon explained how Western philosophy laid groundwork for computing with clickbaity title “How Aristotle Created the Computer;” but, he's right: “The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world.” http://takimag.com/article/diversity_versus_debate_steve_sailer/print#axzz5BHqRM5nD …pic.twitter.com/YxXqecNLsl

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        2. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 7
          Replying to @Steve_Sailer

          I've always wondered how many great minds that passed without a trace left no mark because they were born into cultures that had no written language or means of leaving an enduring record. Innovators build on previous innovation, standing on the shoulders of giants.

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        3. Sigdrifr‏ @Sigdrifr Apr 8
          Replying to @epobirs @Steve_Sailer

          Indeed, inventors of tool making, organized hunting, fire, basketry, boating, art, language itself, astronomical observation and prediction, pottery, religion all lost in the mists of time.

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        4. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 8
          Replying to @Sigdrifr @Steve_Sailer

          It's a fascinating subject to me why some groups of humans reach a certain level of development and then become largely static for long stretches of time, often changing only due to outsiders coming on the scene.

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        5. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 8
          Replying to @epobirs @Sigdrifr @Steve_Sailer

          It's long been a theme in fantasy writing to consider what change at a pivotal moment could radically alter history. They usually resort to something radical, like a knowledgeable time traveler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall …

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        6. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 8
          Replying to @epobirs @Sigdrifr @Steve_Sailer

          But imagine if the essential concepts of scientific method had occurred to a Roman with the wealth to put it into action.

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        7. Sigdrifr‏ @Sigdrifr Apr 8
          Replying to @epobirs @Steve_Sailer

          The Romans had pretty advanced engineering: hydraulics, concrete, domes. But a slave-based manual economy was a pretty big barrier to radical innovation.

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        8. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 8
          Replying to @Sigdrifr @Steve_Sailer

          Though very different from the form of slavery practiced in the antebellum US. There was no barrier to a slave being well educated and accomplished in a field. I'd suspect the biggest problem being societal, market protectionism at swordpoint.

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        9. epobirs‏ @epobirs Apr 8
          Replying to @epobirs @Sigdrifr @Steve_Sailer

          Another interesting alternate history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus_trilogy … This universe deviates when Pontius Pilate pardons a religious upstart who then lives and dies in obscurity.

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        2. Unite and conquer‏ @_RickConnor Apr 7
          Replying to @Steve_Sailer

          If you read literature by the most renowned & pre-eminent historians of science (David Lindberg, Edward Grant, etc.) you realize just how central Aristotle was to the development of science throughout the Middle Ages (which paved the way for the Scientific Revolution)

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        3. The Cup Is Half Full Metal Alchemist‏ @Jeffrey_of_Troy Apr 7
          Replying to @_RickConnor @Steve_Sailer

          Aristotelian logic, enforced by the Church, prevented the development of science for over 1,000 years.

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        4. Unite and conquer‏ @_RickConnor Apr 7
          Replying to @Jeffrey_of_Troy @Steve_Sailer

          That's a common misconception, for two reasons: (1) Aristotelianism only began in earnest in Europe circa 13th CE - only about 300-350 yrs prior to the Scientific Revolution. Before this, only a paltry amount of Aristotle's work existed in the Latin West >>

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        2. D. M. Candiru‏ @DoctorCandiru Apr 7
          Replying to @Steve_Sailer

          The Upanishads "invented" logic 500 years before Aristotle. It's asinine to ignore Eastern philosophy while inflating the importance of a man whose understanding of physics was less sophisticated than Captain Planet.

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        3. Alan Paulk‏ @alanpaulk Apr 7
          Replying to @DoctorCandiru @Steve_Sailer

          That’s right, Aristotle’s legacy is all because of racism. Racism can explain every fact of human history.

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        4. D. M. Candiru‏ @DoctorCandiru Apr 7
          Replying to @alanpaulk @Steve_Sailer

          I'm sorry, but please explain how what I wrote made you come away with what you think I wrote.

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        5. Alan Paulk‏ @alanpaulk Apr 7
          Replying to @DoctorCandiru @Steve_Sailer

          Why do you think people have put so much emphasis on Aristotle and neglected the Uphanishads?

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        6. D. M. Candiru‏ @DoctorCandiru Apr 7
          Replying to @alanpaulk @Steve_Sailer

          How do you define "people" in that context? Do African, Asian, and South American scholars emphasize Aristotle as much as western Europe and the US?

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        7. Alan Paulk‏ @alanpaulk Apr 7
          Replying to @DoctorCandiru @Steve_Sailer

          Bingo- we’ve arrived at race.

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        8. D. M. Candiru‏ @DoctorCandiru Apr 7
          Replying to @alanpaulk @Steve_Sailer

          Please answer my questions.

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        9. Alan Paulk‏ @alanpaulk Apr 7
          Replying to @DoctorCandiru @Steve_Sailer

          I mean the people who emphasize Aristotle, wherever they are located. If you want to say that it’s only the west, ok. I think it’s obvious where you are headed.

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