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#Wang Chong
Wang Chong · 27 – c. 100 CE
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“Nineteen centuries before "fact-checking" existed, a poor clerk from the provinces tested his whole civilization's beliefs against evidence — and was ignored for two thousand years.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The universe runs by itself, without purpose or design; heaven sends no omens, the dead do not become ghosts, and every claim — even a sage's — must be weighed on the balance of evidence.”
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