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It’s also history of thought itself. For instance, deductive logic over abstract objects divorced from facts vs empirical, scientific method (and funnily, it is the former worldview that prevailed).
Can you change the image of the timeline to one that can be zoomed into please. Its blurred and not readable.
It’s also history of thought itself. For instance, deductive logic over abstract objects divorced from facts vs empirical, scientific method (and funnily, it is the former worldview that prevailed).