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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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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Less so the more time you've spent trying to think like people 500 years ago (or more).

