07-11-2014, 04:56 PM
Mark,
How you think, act, and process things is not just biologically related. You yourself, because of who you are, where you are from, and what you have done, are completely unique as compared to a modern tribesman living in say Papua New Guneia. It doesn't matter if biologically you and that tribesman are similar and of the same species. If you would to be stuck in his world, and he in your own, both of you would be lost, metaphorically and physically too probably, because culturally you are different. Therefore, how you both would interpret different things is also culturally biased. The fact is that as many similarities as you see and want to believe exist between you and an Ancient Roman, the reality is that culturally, you are not at all similar. Therefore, as you frequently do in nearly every thread you participate in, when you declare your own mindset and "common sense" is how an ancient culture existed, you are exercising a logical fallacy.
You dropped a definition, so I will too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronism
"In historical writing, the most common type of anachronism is the adoption of the political, social or cultural concerns and assumptions of one era to interpret or evaluate the events and actions of another."
Sound familiar?
How you think, act, and process things is not just biologically related. You yourself, because of who you are, where you are from, and what you have done, are completely unique as compared to a modern tribesman living in say Papua New Guneia. It doesn't matter if biologically you and that tribesman are similar and of the same species. If you would to be stuck in his world, and he in your own, both of you would be lost, metaphorically and physically too probably, because culturally you are different. Therefore, how you both would interpret different things is also culturally biased. The fact is that as many similarities as you see and want to believe exist between you and an Ancient Roman, the reality is that culturally, you are not at all similar. Therefore, as you frequently do in nearly every thread you participate in, when you declare your own mindset and "common sense" is how an ancient culture existed, you are exercising a logical fallacy.
You dropped a definition, so I will too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronism
"In historical writing, the most common type of anachronism is the adoption of the political, social or cultural concerns and assumptions of one era to interpret or evaluate the events and actions of another."
Sound familiar?
