Re: The logic of atheism


Ben Goren wrote:
Ron Peterson wrote:

> A better approach would be to define a different metric on the
> plane so that the coordinates of the lines describing a square
> would be equidistant from the center of the square.

But that wouldn't mean the construction of a square circle at
all. It'd just mean altering your ruler in such a way that it
reports the results you want, not what actually exists. The points
on the square wouldn't really be equidistant from the center;
you'd just be making up a convenient lie to describe them that
way.

It's not a lie, a mathematical theory is a collection of definitions
and axioms and has no need to correspond to a particular interpretation
of reality.

--
Ron

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