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gaius
on June 21, 2011
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Hernando de Soto: The Destruction of Economic Fact...
It is a ridiculous analogy tho'. What do humans know about the air we breathe? Well quite a lot actually. What do humans know about the ground we walk on? Ditto.
gwern
on June 21, 2011
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And what did we know about air before the 1500s or so - for the last 50 millennia?
asclepiades
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Without wanting to sound harsh, but we knew it existed and that one could not live without it.
wgren
on June 22, 2011
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From studying sediments and vegetation - quite a lot actually.
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