There are no records of anyone dying over this belief.
Christopher Columbus
An intentional mental state is a mental state that represents content or different states of affairs. For example, a belief is an intentional mental state that represents the way the world it. It may be a true belief that accurately represents the world (i.e. the belief the world is a globe) or it could be a false belief that does not accurately represent the world (i.e. the belief that the world is flat). Desires (including hopes/dreams/etc) are also intentional mental states that represent how the agent would like the world to be.
this belief was prevalent even before man could write thus it is impossible to find out the answer
To impugn is to challenge, oppose or attack as being false.Usage:I impugn you.'I impugn your belief that the world is flat'
that it is flat
That it was a common belief among the crew members, and the population at large during the late fifteenth century, that the world was flat.
The belief that the Earth was flat was disproved by new explorations, such as the circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan's expedition in the 16th century. This journey showed that the Earth is round, not flat.
okkkay this is a little strange.....?? the world is not flat
Ships can circle the world by water and end in the spot where they began, proving the Earth must be round to the contrary belief that it was flat.
Flat Walsh died in 1959.
Thomas Friedman wrote The World Is Flat.
Flat World Knowledge was created in 2007.