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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by ethbr0 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:19AM (#28653411)
Not sure if you're arguing from an epistemological or objective basis, but I'll assume the latter.

We know that our knowledge better describes the results we reliably reproduce in the world around us.

We have knowledge about things that our ancestors did not.

If that doesn't constitute "knowing more than they did," I'm not sure what does.

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by hirako2000 on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:33AM (#28658660)
We don't know that. All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time.

We have a tendency to assume we know more than at any other time before on the basis that we know more than our rather recent ancestors.

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by CRConrad on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:17AM (#28680148)
> All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time.

What does that mean, if not "we know more than they did"?

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