Origyptian Wrote:
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> OCaptain Wrote:
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> > Ori,
> >
> > Who are the builders?
>
> Hold on. I'm not the one who said I knew who the
> builders were. I'm the one challenging those those
> who insist the builders lived during around the
> 3rd millennium BC. If you also don't claim to know
> who they were, then we're on relatively equal
> footing on this issue. But if you think you DO
> know, then I'm all ears...

Translated into Honest, a language alien to Doctor Femano, he doesn’t know, has nothing determinate to say about them and NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER to offer on the question: no inscriptions, no depictions, no tools, no settlements, no infrastructure, no burials, none of the impedimenta of everyday life and death.

To these questions, he has no answers:

What was their language? What was their script? What were their units of measurement? Were they white, brown or purple? What did they wear? What did they eat? What materials did they use? What sources of power? What means of transport?

The entire basis of his “challenge” being a set of epistemic platitudes, of a kind which most of us realise at the sophomore level is not so very clever after all.

So, again we have this jumped-up nothing, arrogating to himself the role of arbiter and laying claim without argument or justification to an asymmetry between himself and others, such that we must humbly proffer our evidence to him, while he produces none at all.

M.