/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11058639
Did you, by chance, go to a shit university?

>>10370246
Genetic studies disagree.
So, to close, because I think it's poignant here:
In the words of David Kellogg Lewis:
>It is not to be demanded that a philosophical theory should agree with anything that the man on the street would insist on offhand, uninformed, and therefore uninfluenced by any theoretical gains to be had by changing his mind. (Especially not if, like many men on the streets nowadays, he would rise to the occasion and wax wildly philosophical at the slightest provocation.)

>>10361982
In the words of David Kellogg Lewis:
>It is not to be demanded that a philosophical theory should agree with anything that the man on the street would insist on offhand, uninformed, and therefore uninfluenced by any theoretical gains to be had by changing his mind. (Especially not if, like many men on the streets nowadays, he would rise to the occasion and wax wildly philosophical at the slightest provocation.)
As such, such texts are meant for scholars, and the scholastic language of that era was Latin (as it still is in some respects today).
That is why it wasn't written in English, because the layperson wasn't the intended audience. Nor should it be.