Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:đ° Sun 31 Mar 2024
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠agoI have been thinking William of Occam is possibly the most influential human in history
his influence in bringing freedom of thought created modern scientific industrial western civilisation and westernised and industrialised the whole planet
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ohh thatâs an interesting thought. I donât know an awful lot about William of Occam but he definitely was the precursor to a lot of that reductionist thinkingâŚ
I went straight to old mate GenghisâŚ
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Logic and reality testing rules. Religion was relegated to spiritual and moral matters. Divine right fell down. The whole structure of society fell down. No longer did we have to say black was white just because the boss said so.