Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst...
by MichaelZuo on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:10PM
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Well sure a very slim chance is a reasonable position.
Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst...
by fc417fc802 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:11PM
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Not in the way that people usually use those words. "Reasonable position" generally refers to a reasonable assumption to make or gamble to take. Something technically remaining within the realm of possibility is not that.
Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst...
by MichaelZuo on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:55AM
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And your personal opinion on this alleged standard is relevant because…?
Edit: clarified the question
Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst...
by fc417fc802 on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:46AM
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Because the two of us appear to be attempting to communicate and effective use of language requires some level of mutual understanding of vocabulary. The statement you made does not hold when those words are taken to mean what I broadly understand them to mean.
Which is to say that no, a very slim chance is not a reasonable position to take in most contexts.
We can't prove that there wasn't some isolated genius who engaged in animal husbandry in Africa before everyone else but was ignored by the rest of his tribe or whatever. But we have managed to place some fairly low upper bound on how much of that could have been happening. At some point it is reasonable to conclude that your typical society in that time and place didn't have access to it.