12-22-2014, 07:14 PM
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
we dont have any extraordinary evidence about a lot of things that is just assumed. For example, sole existence of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and his life is based on indirect mentions, while we dont have anything direct about him. and another fact worth to mention is the way how written mentions survived to these days, often just as translated texts of some unknown monks who made a lot of mistakes translating things they dont understood (military affairs) from latin, while we (usually) dont have any original sources.
we dont have any extraordinary evidence about a lot of things that is just assumed. For example, sole existence of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and his life is based on indirect mentions, while we dont have anything direct about him. and another fact worth to mention is the way how written mentions survived to these days, often just as translated texts of some unknown monks who made a lot of mistakes translating things they dont understood (military affairs) from latin, while we (usually) dont have any original sources.
Jaroslav Jakubov
