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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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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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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