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Originally Posted by Dyshade
The greeks defined modern western philosphical thought and as such were its forefathers. |
first of all, im not sure that "western" philosophical thought is all that important, and my contributions to this topic are not exclusive to western anything but societies in general. and newton didnt invent gravity just because he was the first to "define" it.
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Just as the Sumerians birthed written language, mathematics, agriculture, and many other things. Sure it is easy to postulate that others may have come before them and yet they were the first "recorded" and as such share the distinction of being the "first".
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so as far as youre concerned they were the first. its all about you and not about reasonable possibilities. furthermore, if this is the end all for you, the written language and agriculture thing well archaeologists are regularly coming up with proof that mesoamerica and africa both preceded or in the least matched the sumerians: the extent to which it was done and the make-up of it varied due to ecological variations. the plow or variations of it however, according to some of our dear historians, seemed to be invented around the same time in mesoamerica, north america, southern europe, africa, asia and mesopotamia.
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Once again, the Greeks were the first to postulate philosophical thought and record it. Do you wish to hold forth some sort of 'FACTS" to deny that claim or shall we continue to place faith in your opinion??
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well this is all your opinion and the faith you place in historians, so much so that youll not consider anything outside of what youve been taught..
you can say, "This is all that really matters in your entire post above. The rest was redundant tripe. As such I will only answer this" and pick and choose what youll confront but it is true all day long. My Point is I will consider everything, and that is the main difference between you and I. and that is all there is to it. I am not as disciplined and conditioned as you, nor do I put all that much faith in historians, certainly not so much that i will dismiss anything outside the realm of what they tell me.