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In this case it appears that what you think is completely obvious no one before Hobbes, Locke and Hume had any inkling of. All this is chronological snobbery; the strange idea that what has been argued in the past must have refuted and what is believed now must be right. That Pre-Descartesian thought, except a few Greco-Romans, badly interpreted, is largely ignored you do not take into account. This is quite an ironic position for someone so intent on disparaging those who try and appeal to normalcy.
You confuse a philosophical belief with the application of that belief. I am quite certain that folks from very early times had a philosophy of what constitutes normal. Their application of such would be contextual on their time period. The belief system might continue to apply, but the application in THEIR time period no longer does. You constantly confuse philosophy with application, Wessexman, and often digress into psuedo-intellectual rubbish when this is pointed out. Talk philosophy all you want. I am discussing application. How folks in pre-modern Western society applied the concept of normal, no longer applies in most cases.