(I’m not actually confident in this at all, but thought I’d throw it out there and see what folk think.)
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Claim: the loss of knowledge about logic from the medieval period going into the early modern is the single greatest Kuhn loss in the history of science other than those which resulted from civilisational collapse. #philosophy #science #history
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I don't know about single greatest, because I'm not sure what the other contenders are, but certainly up there in the ranking.
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Ah yeah tbh I don’t mean the comparative claim all that seriously, am just trying to goad people into giving me examples that might be of a comparable order.
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Are there people who have tried to explain why that loss happened?
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I believe there are, but I will tag
@SaraLUckelman and@HistPhilosophy as people who can direct you to better resources than I could! - Show replies
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Interesting proposition. Let's revisit it post-strike when there will be more participants.
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Please do! Being in Yankeeland I’m a bit out of the loop, could you retweet when appropriate?
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does the aftermath of the slave trade count as civilizational collapse (it includes many civilizational collapses at the level of city-states/empires/kingdoms/etc but also some that persisted)
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I’m not sure when counts as the aftermath of the slave trade?
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