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tilthat: TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.

nentuaby: I love when apparently Deep questions turn out to have clear empirical answers.

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just look at how associations between color and genders differ between cultures and change over time. Those differences absolutely exists, you're just not seeing it because you're not the target audience

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If most of history is just one time

https://www.britannica.com/story/has-pink-always-been-a-girly-color

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451877/

No sex differences were found in preference for pink in any of the three societies not influenced by global culture

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very well. Please tell me about the past twenty or so times that boy girl color associations changed.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Even it happening one time is enough to disprove it not happening.

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