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The dominant philosophy of the middle ages was Scholasticism: the rigorous application of logical exegesis to extract the maximum possible of meaning out of Scripture.

The Scholastics achieved some miracles of logical analysis (ordinary people were so impressed with how inerrantly they could deduce propositions from axioms that they assumed logical analysis was a form of magic) - but at the end of the day there is a very limited amount of truth in The Bible.

Civilisation was only finally able to move out of the medieval gloom when the Renaissance arrived with its forensics and empiricism.

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