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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by spicebox on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:36PM (#36927253)
Touché - “Science has widely come to be understood as a systematic assault on common sense. Common sense said the world was flat; science showed this to be false. Common sense said the sun and the moon were the same size; science showed this to be wrong. Common sense said the Earth was the center of the universe; science showed this to be false. Common sense said matter was solid; science has shown this to be false”

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by HideousKojima on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:12AM (#36928997)
Citation needed that those things were, in fact, common sense. The earth being the center of the universe comes from ancient philosophers, not commoners (there's a reason the geocentric model is also called the Ptolemaic model). Those same philosophers also usually said the earth was round, not flat.
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