Comment by rsynnott
11 hours ago
This feels kind of tautological. We know who built Teotihuacan, it was the Teotihuacanos! What do we know about them? Well, they built Teotihuacan...
(Seriously, though, _is_ anything much known about them beyond that?)
The general term for this type of argument is "dormitive potency".
https://brucebyfield.com/2012/07/11/recognizing-dormitive-ex...