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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (39121)6/4/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
However, if a number of these self-evidently different people reach the same
conclusions independently, then that lends credence to the ideas.


My god. So up until about 1400 the Earth really WAS flat! And for centuries, the earth was the center of the universe and all the stars and planets revolved around it.



To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (39121)6/5/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: nihil  Respond to of 108807
 
"Veracity" closeness to the truth - the precisely correct word for ideas.