@TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months agoAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?message-square139fedilinkarrow-up1307file-text
arrow-up1307message-squareAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?@TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•6 months agoWasn’t that rather a reference to the normal / gaussian distribution, that describes many phenomena so well?
minus-square@uriel238linkEnglish2•6 months agoI always thought the phrase was Aristotlean but it seems the internet asserts recent or unknown origins.
Wasn’t that rather a reference to the normal / gaussian distribution, that describes many phenomena so well?
I always thought the phrase was Aristotlean but it seems the internet asserts recent or unknown origins.