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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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Please check this sentence, ''Human societies have figured out ...''

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00Is this sentence correct? I have underlined the part which is troubling me.02br
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00Human societies have figured out not to rely solely on personal experiences and 01u01i00first principles reasoning thousands of years ago by asking others for help and sharing knowledge02i02u00.0-
  

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1i01u00first principles reasoning thousands of years ago02u02i02br
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00I don't understand what you mean by this part.02br
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00'figured out' is very informal writing.0-
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0 it means there is no point in re-inventing the wheel0-
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0 I don't think it does... 0-
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0'first principles' is a term in philosophy for a priori truths - the underlying truths about existence.0-
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0lol We could keep this up all day.02br
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00I think not as the first part of the sentence talks about 2 things that societies do 01b00not02b00 rely on; personal experiences 01b00and02b00 00first principles reasoning thousands of years ago. 02br
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00So if anything, it is saying that societies question
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0 Perhaps we do still rely on first principles but we dont need to explicate them as we take them for granted and have internalised them.02br
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00We simply make that wheel as quickly as we can ignoring the fact it took thousands of years of effort and trial and error before the first wheel was made.02br
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00Thats my reading,02br
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0My paraphrase would be:02br
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00Thousands of years ago human societies moved forward from relying on 01b01i00the evidence of their senses, and what seemed unassailably true as a result02i02b00 by asking others for help and sharing knowledge00.02br
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00It's a bit of a clumsy argument though.0-
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