just saw someone saying trust in science because life expectacy in middle ages was 35. life expectancy was not 35. infant mortality lowered expectancy a good bit (not that much!) but once you got past infancy people lived for spans we'd recognize today for the most part.
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I think we’ve lose the plot here. What is science is a topic we can discuss. Whether science as commonly thought of, aka people thought of a scientists solving scientific problems, is responsible for indoor plumbing is not a question that can be debated. Of course it is.
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historians and philosophers of science debate that sort of question all the time!
End of conversation
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Exactly or we can qualify terms with 'formal science' or 'scientific method' etc and open whole other cans of worms. Eitherway the Middle Ages had noted thinkers discussing formal reasoning & empiricism & the period had technological advances as well not neccesarily connected
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