Schooling works by communicating statements of fact linked causally: A, then B, thus C. The same process for History, Math, English, and everything else. None of this helps people think "well, why not D?" None helps people develop a comfort with being wrong in interesting ways.https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1320094774611804161 …
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a famous example of this from mathematical history is the construction of non-euclidean geometry in an attempt to show that only euclidean geometry was logically consistent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry#Discovery_of_non-Euclidean_geometry …
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specifically, Bolyai showed that nothing in logic constrains the physical universe from being non-euclidean (and it turns out it isn’t), through trying to find logical inconsistencies in “interesting but wrong” constructions of geometry
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