TrueMacedonian writes: "Are greeks more European than any other Europeans?"
I don't know. I said no such thing and I don't rate "Europeanism", nor do I think it is at all a remotely relevant or rational question. Why do you ask? I suspect you have an answer that you want to tell us.
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Are greeks more European than any other Europeans?Originally posted by Mistracona View PostOne should take anything he reads in the MINA site with a large spoon of fairy dust.
Undoubtedly, similar intellectual discoveries have been made in different parts of the world by different cultures at different times and even simultaneously. The invention of the lightbulb, the telephone, the airplane, the formation of the theory of evolution were come upon at different points by different people who did not necessarily have contact with each other. No one culture has a monopoly on intellectual insight. It stands to reason that some of the concepts formed by ancient Greek thinkers were also perceived by previous civilizations. The abridged reference from MINA says that Hawkins book states that the theorem we call Pythagorean was also known by earlier cultures. Hawkins does not say that Pythagoras "stole" or even learned about the theorem from watching babylonian TV.
There is nothing to say that Pythagoras did not, like others, conceive of the theorem independently. One essential characteristic of the ancient Greeks is that because of their geographical position they transmitted to the rest of Europe some insights and developments from other cultures (from which the Greeks themselves learned many things) as well as creating a dynamic and influential culture of their own. Humanity is culturally and biologically interlinked.
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Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin were contemporaries. Employing somewhat similar methods, they each came up independently with the theory of evolution. One neither "borrowed" nor "stole" the idea from the other. It was Wallace's preparation to publish at the Royal Society that spurred Darwin to publish first. Darwin is today credited with the theory, but Wallace's co-discovery is always acknowledged. The two men respected and recognised each other's independent formulation of the theory.
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One should take anything he reads in the MINA site with a large spoon of fairy dust.
Undoubtedly, similar intellectual discoveries have been made in different parts of the world by different cultures at different times and even simultaneously. The invention of the lightbulb, the telephone, the airplane, the formation of the theory of evolution were come upon at different points by different people who did not necessarily have contact with each other. No one culture has a monopoly on intellectual insight. It stands to reason that some of the concepts formed by ancient Greek thinkers were also perceived by previous civilizations. The abridged reference from MINA says that Hawkins book states that the theorem we call Pythagorean was also known by earlier cultures. Hawkins does not say that Pythagoras "stole" or even learned about the theorem from watching babylonian TV.
There is nothing to say that Pythagoras did not, like others, conceive of the theorem independently. One essential characteristic of the ancient Greeks is that because of their geographical position they transmitted to the rest of Europe some insights and developments from other cultures (from which the Greeks themselves learned many things) as well as creating a dynamic and influential culture of their own. Humanity is culturally and biologically interlinked.
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TM
aahhhh I wish I had as many as you!
Interesting that Hawkings is considered one of the greatest modern day thinkers, only took him a few minutes to work out the thieves, imagine if he put all his energy into diproving all their claims!!!, the comnclusion would be closer to "they never existed" they have been hijacking all other peoples identities as their own for thousands of years! hahahaha!
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Lol thanks for bringing this to our attention makedonche. I like how these modern pretenders harken back to antiquity yet forget recent history of their yayas speaking albanian, macedonian, or turkish.Originally posted by makedonche View PostTM
Thieving malaka's at that!
From Mina, a section of Stephen Hawkings new book!
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TM
Thieving malaka's at that!
From Mina, a section of Stephen Hawkings new book!6. Pythagoras stole the credit
In passing, the authors casually assert that the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras did not actually discover the Pythagorean theorem.
A little digging suggests the formula (a2 + b2 = c2, which describes the relationship between the three sides of a right triangle) was actually known earlier. The Babylonians, for example, seem to have documented the basic idea in ancient mathematical tablets before Pythagoras came on the scene in 570 B.C.
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