• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    It’s generally useful to think of these things in more nuanced terms than right or wrong. If/when they are unified, it will be a refinement.

    https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

    My answer to him was, “John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”