Pundit
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- Feb 4, 2007
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Originally Posted by Pundit
If validity was democratic then Galileo and Copernicus would have been voted wrong, and the sun would have been revolving around the earth.
If your thoughts would have been democratic, you wouldn't disapprove the assumption based on this thread
Let me break it down some more, it seems you are consistently not getting my points.
If validity was democratic, (meaning if the truth depended on how many people voted for it) then Galileo and Copernicus would have been voted wrong (Copernicus knew that the earth moved around the sun while the entire world thought the sun was moving around the earth)
The point here is that the truth is not democratic, the fact that the earth goes around the sun does not change whether the entire population believe that or not.
Far from claiming that my thoughts were democratic, I was blowing holes in the fallacious assumption that truth is democratic and just because many people believe in a thing, then it must be true.
Just look at Kikwete and the regrets of democratic triumphs!