I can think of lots of alternate hypotheses for why Romans had good camp hygiene.
(1) Russo’s answer to everything is that they copied all their technology from the Hellenistic Greeks without copying their understanding (eg, aqueducts). History or archaeology probably records who had these camps first. (2) Perhaps urban disease evolved cities to have good hygiene without understanding and the Romans copied the hygiene to the camps fairly arbitrarily. (3) Or maybe it copied some other urban practice that had non-disease reasons. Or pure superstition. This isn’t a detailed hypothesis, but I don’t think that’s a good reason to reject it.
I am sure you can, but before we get to proposing that it was the gurgling in Russel’s teapot that led the Romans to consider the sanitation of their camps, maybe a bit of a consultation with William of Occam is in order?
I can think of lots of alternate hypotheses for why Romans had good camp hygiene.
(1) Russo’s answer to everything is that they copied all their technology from the Hellenistic Greeks without copying their understanding (eg, aqueducts). History or archaeology probably records who had these camps first. (2) Perhaps urban disease evolved cities to have good hygiene without understanding and the Romans copied the hygiene to the camps fairly arbitrarily. (3) Or maybe it copied some other urban practice that had non-disease reasons. Or pure superstition. This isn’t a detailed hypothesis, but I don’t think that’s a good reason to reject it.
I am sure you can, but before we get to proposing that it was the gurgling in Russel’s teapot that led the Romans to consider the sanitation of their camps, maybe a bit of a consultation with William of Occam is in order?