These axioms and theories were all created many moons ago; when life expectancy was significantly shorter than it is not. Today these metrics seem silly. When old age was forty...
Or as Tom Lerher said - " When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for three years..."
"Folks" needed a way to understand their world. In a world where real information was few and far between, they would make "science-through-observation" theories. To wit...
Supposition: Trees cause wind
Reasoning: When there is no wind, the trees do not move. When the trees move there is wind, hence...
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Perchance...
Date: 2005-11-20 03:47 pm (UTC)Or as Tom Lerher said - " When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for three years..."
"Folks" needed a way to understand their world. In a world where real information was few and far between, they would make "science-through-observation" theories. To wit...
Supposition: Trees cause wind
Reasoning: When there is no wind, the trees do not move. When the trees move there is wind, hence...