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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Short answer: The Humanist backlash against the Scholastics. Long answer: I'm currently participating in the
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Sounds plausible, though scholasticism continued in pretty good nick alongside humanism so... maybe ask me in four years after I have written the relevant podcasts?
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