By exist, I mean something you’d be able to study. For example, dinosaurs existed well before 1800 but that doesn’t mean there was a good way for the layman to learn about them.

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    2 days ago

    I’m interested in etymology and grammar, so I would have been on the bleeding edge of social science, but yes