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Thought of an interesting question... if you made a list of interesting dead public/historical figures, how many of them do you think "died while wrong"... as in holding core important beliefs that turned out to be wrong Eg. maybe Hammurabi died thinking the world was flat?
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Slightly confusing framing. I don’t mean died with at least 1 wrong core belief, which is probably everyone, but most core beliefs being wrong or undermined.
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A kinda example is Gottlob Frege, he was 53 when Russell wrote him pointing out what became known as Russell’s paradox. There were attempts to salvage the Frege program until he died in 1925 and Godel shut it down properly in 1930-31. So Frege arguably “died wrong”
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An interesting terminal boundary condition for life is to try and minimize your wrongness/not-even wrongness on your deathbed but without making it a posture of total doubt/solipsism. Like you die convinced certain things are true and if are resurrected 500y later they still are.
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Time travel is a good thought experiment here… half-life of facts etc. If you could time-travel 500 years out for a day the last day before you die, how shook would you likely be?
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