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You were probably told by your schoolteachers that the ancients were dumb because they believed the earth was the centre of the cosmos, but actually it was your teachers who were suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Here’s why the ancients used a geocentric model of the universe, instead of a heliocentric model:

https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/from-empiricism-to-the-empyrean?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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You were probably told by your schoolteachers that the ancients were dumb because they believed the earth was the centre of the cosmos, but actually it was your teachers who were suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Here’s why the ancients used a geocentric model of the universe, instead of a heliocentric model:

https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/from-empiricism-to-the-empyrean?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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