Comment on Open Thread, Sept 5. - Sept 11. 2016

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 02:33:13 GMT

"The probability of these ideas occurring to an ancient person..."

In the ancient world it was very common to predict the imminent end of the world.

And in my own case, before ever having heard of the Doomsday argument, the argument occurred to me exactly in the context of thinking about the possible end of the world.

So it doesn't seem particularly unlikely to occur to an ancient person.

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