While it's useful to have such key phrases--one of the places I hang out is Making Light, where we've developed a great sensitivity to commenters using the phrase "you people"--that doesn't mean we shouldn't want to hit them over the head with a seal, nor yet that we don't sometimes need to point out the falsehood of their statements.
On the specific here, I shall start asking "how long a time?" and "which people?" Columbus was considered a fool in part because of how long people had known the Earth was round, and how large it is.
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Re: On the folly of sophistry and sincerity in stupidity...
Date: 2007-10-28 02:23 pm (UTC)On the specific here, I shall start asking "how long a time?" and "which people?" Columbus was considered a fool in part because of how long people had known the Earth was round, and how large it is.