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by hhas01 2075 days ago
People predicted lots of things. You can’t look back and say “oh, they predicted X right” while conveniently ignoring all the other ways they predicted it wrong.

See also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc and Texas sharpshooter fallacies.

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Why can't the same argument be hold for Pre-Socratic philosophers and the "atom"?