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The Idea that modern formal systems are a European Invention is a common misconception, but nevertheless wrong. Depending on your definition of "modern formal systems" they were either first invented by the Babylonians, in India or in China but most certainly not in Europe, which at the time was at a much earlier state of development.

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I meant the systematic thinking of axioms, theorems, and logical systems like syllogism. I don’t know about other countries, but I’m pretty sure India or China didn’t develop rigorous systems line Greeks and Arabics. They developed a lot of techniques, for sure, like how to solve equation systems, but certainly not generalizations like axioms-theorems-proofs

Politely, what are you talking about? Indian logic is considered one of the three original traditions of logic and has sources in 650 BCE.

I think he's talking about white supremacy

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