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    1. Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 14 Mar 2018

      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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    2. Femi aka W.E.B. Du Bars‏ @FemisMusic 14 Mar 2018
      Replying to @lastpositivist

      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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    3. Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 14 Mar 2018
      Replying to @FemisMusic

      I’m not sure when counts as the aftermath of the slave trade?

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    4. Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 14 Mar 2018
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      (E.g do you mean, say, the time period between the mid 19th century and whenever Brazil rendered slavery illegal?)

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    5. Femi aka W.E.B. Du Bars‏ @FemisMusic 14 Mar 2018
      Replying to @lastpositivist

      The time period between 1492 and 188i

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      Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 14 Mar 2018
      Replying to @FemisMusic

      So I guess to answer your question I certainly think there were a lot of civilisational collapses in that time!

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        2. Femi aka W.E.B. Du Bars‏ @FemisMusic 14 Mar 2018
          Replying to @lastpositivist

          I guess I'm confused about what the point is doing? What civilizations correspond to the periods you're picking out in your historical point about logic? I would have thought there would be collapses in that period but maybe not!

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        3. Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 14 Mar 2018
          Replying to @FemisMusic

          Kuhn loss: change from theory X to Y, but not everything X could explain is explained by Y. That happens because centres of learning get wiped out (as e.g. with fall of Rome or the Inca), I'm just trying to rule out those cases - I want examples of more voluntary theory change.

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