Ridecamp: [RC] Critical Thinking/The six rules of evidential reasoning /was pet communicators

>And, actually the world was never flat. Close mined people only thought it
>was. And those that did not were likely burned at the stake.

Actually, the educated classes have known that the world was
round since Greek times.  Their bone with Columbus is that
he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth (which,
in fact, he *HAD*), not that you could reach the east by
sailing west.

>(question everything)

Which is not the same thing as "believe everything."

I recommend Umberto Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@xxxxxxxxx
Massachusetts, USA




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