Sure. If we had a tight, robust framework for how civilizations arise and what was required for them to arise, this would be a bad demand for particular proof. I’d be just as happy to see that. So it might have been better if my initial comment had been of the form “without any strong theoretical framework, this requires a sample size larger than 1”.
Yes. But whatever the disambiguation, appealing to lack of particular proof won’t help.
Sure. If we had a tight, robust framework for how civilizations arise and what was required for them to arise, this would be a bad demand for particular proof. I’d be just as happy to see that. So it might have been better if my initial comment had been of the form “without any strong theoretical framework, this requires a sample size larger than 1”.