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The problem with the Middle Ages explanations though is that the framework they used to explain things was false.

A false framework producing false explanations does not falsify frameworks in general.



But it is an example where applying a framework doesn't make something more accurate. We can't just rationalize whatever we want because it seems to make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. I also don't know that we should believe that our framework is true. I'm not arguing the truth of evolution, but rather how we apply the fact that it occurred to possibly irrelevant aspects of our life.




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