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You have 5 seconds to prove that there is anything we know today that wasn't covered 5000 years earlier in Indian, Mayan and Chinese literature

Pro tip you can't

>> No.6453778
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6453778

did they have jurassic park motive?

>> No.6453781

>>6453768
how to prove soundness for first order logic

>> No.6453891

Pretty much every computer-related topic.

>> No.6453921

>>6453781
>>6453891
That's science not literature

>> No.6453927

>>6453768
special and general relativity

>> No.6453933

>>6453921
Science can be a topic of knowledge covered by literature though.

>> No.6453935

>>6453768
the earth is round

>> No.6453952

Which calendar won
Viticulture and bottling
Course the second makes the first obsolete.

>> No.6453963

I couldn't tell either way. The more I study ancient thinking, the more I understand how complex it was, if only for the sake of ammount of information and concepts. You can compare stuff like a physiotherapist working today with the names of the muscles and possible motions of the human body, the machinery and technology involved, etc, with ancient yoga that not only has a name for muscles, muscle groups, but also to each different position of the leg, for the hands, for the arms, for a combination of them, for a combination of them with a type of breathing (which is several), with a meditative state, along with the understanding that it is analogue to abstract concepts of emotion, consciousness, to deities... And there is thousands upon thousands of them. To the point that they can make a philosophical point through the motion of the body. Our society is not sensitive to that sort of relationships. Of course, this is just an example, we can stay "intellectual" and still see how complex it is. Take a word like "intention" into a buddhist context and you'll find it to be split apart into several different sides to it. Take stuff like "language" or "knowledge" and you'll too have to learn it all over again, because they addressed them all.

Do they know what we know? Do they know more? Do they know less? I think that in a very naive thinking, or at least how we are taught to think in early childhood, that history progresses and that these exotic places from ancient times were behind us. That being said, when we discover the shades and colors of thought from those times, we may be struck by the insight that they knew much more than we do today. I don't think it is either case at all, first because it's not a matter of quantity, second because there are several ways to cover something and not repeat yourself once. Different knowledges.

>> No.6455318

>>6453768
western decadence

>> No.6455325

>>6453768

Formal Logic

>> No.6455348

>>6453963

good post.

>> No.6455372

>>6453768
You have 5 seconds to prove there was any Indian, Mayan, or Chinese literature being written in 3000 B.C.

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6455741

>>6453921

>Implying it's not both

Those retards didn't know jack shit about pointers.

>> No.6455745

>>6453768
I don't think you understand how long ago 5000 years is.

>> No.6455767

>>6453963
recommended reading for this yoga thing, please

>> No.6455771

How history progressed in these 5000 years past them

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6455939

The superiority of the Aryan race

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6455981

>>6455741
>using C
i don't think it's possible to tip any harder than that

>> No.6455987

>>6455981

I don't use C, I use C# (Which is pretty fucking gay at times) but I learned on C, and K&R is the most well known piece of computer science literature, that's why I posted it.

>> No.6456070

>>6455987
>Which is pretty fucking gay at times
>implying C# isn't the greatest computer programming language known to man

>> No.6456727

>>6455981
It's still used if your target is some minimal embedded OS. You can emulate primitive OOP without inheritance by implementing the object as a struct with a bunch of functions processing it.

>> No.6456744

>>6455939
The whole hindu scriptures are one big aryan supremacy rant.