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Oh, for sure. Aristotle is an even better example. Doubtlessly one of the best minds on record, and yet he came up with a "completely wrong" model of the universe. Really makes you question what we are so sure about these days, and also what it means to be wrong - Aristotelian physics worked well enough to be useful for a thousand years.



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