>>699>What is the explanation for this?The enlightenment never fully permeated the fabric of society.
Rudimentary Scientific thinking cures a lot of the mysticism, but that is something you have to actively learn on top of what you passively absorb from society.
Problem Number 1Language, we don't have words that make you include qualifiers for information.
You can say
<yesterday Bob ate puddingThis doesn't say whether you saw Bob eating the pudding, whether you heard John claim that Bob was eating the pudding or whether you did a DNA analysis on saliva residue of the empty pudding cup.
If the enlightenment had reached full permeation, the above example would be considered a grammatical error, and you'd have to include the prominence of the information. There might be special word-endings or pre-fixes for words that say where the information comes from,
or
simple qualifier words like this:
<Testify, yesterday bob ate puddingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.