Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”
Old news about the same old grift.
Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”
Old news about the same old grift.
We didn’t. Which is an even better illustration to the point you’re making.
People still think the earth is flat and people still burn witches. Which, as you say, is exactly the point here. People are fucking stupid and they always have been.
Plenty still think it’s flat now so I’d allow it regardless, but most sources suggest <3000 years of people believing this, much less having the math or physics to back it up.
I’d say it’s more of a small group that cling to a flat earth idea for whatever reason (it started as a joke), while another small group can argue the physics and evidence to show it’s round. Most everyone else is somewhere in the middle, not even really thinking about the question at all. Which is how most people have always been about a lot of things, not concerned about something that doesn’t affect them.