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ComputerPersontoday at 7:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

He stated, in a separate work, that women had fewer teeth as an example of his views on their inferiority. Makes you want to take everything he said with a grain of salt.

In his defense (sorry if defending him offends here), women probably did, at the time, often have fewer teeth due to worse dental care.


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dr_dshivtoday at 7:56 PM

https://sourcelibrary.org/book/problemata-text-beginning-omn...

An original source for this. I wonder if wisdom teeth affected this count? It’s so odd of a claim

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aerhardttoday at 10:13 PM

Sorry for defending Aristotle? Have we lost the plot as a society?