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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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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Replying to @FemisMusic
I’m not sure when counts as the aftermath of the slave trade?
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Replying to @lastpositivist @FemisMusic
(E.g do you mean, say, the time period between the mid 19th century and whenever Brazil rendered slavery illegal?)
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So I guess to answer your question I certainly think there were a lot of civilisational collapses in that time!
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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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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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Looking at all the theory changes between 1492 and 1880s unlikely to be informative here, I think, because just far too much happening - case of switch in logical research in Europe during Renaissance much more circumspect, would prefer comparison cases like that.
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