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hirako2000 on Sept 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Ameri...

We don't know that. All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time.

We have a tendency to assume we know more than at any other time before on the basis that we know more than our rather recent ancestors.

CRConrad on Sept 28, 2021 [–]

> All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time.

What does that mean, if not "we know more than they did"?

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