Re: A Modern Version of the Contingency Argument of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:55 am
The pun was rather ponderous and obvious but it's always reassuring to know that somebody's paying attention.Hobbes' Choice wrote:And not to avoid a pun. It is a circular argument.Obvious Leo wrote:Or as Sir Humphrey Appleby might put it.
If a circle is defined as a continuous line which is equidistant from a point then it becomes impossible to define a continuous line which is equidistant from a point as anything other than a circle. The circularity of a circle is not a feature of a circle which is reducible to a mathematical proof.