Re: Does the Calculus rest on Euclid?


Hatto von Aquitanien wrote:
Gene Ward Smith wrote:


Virgil wrote:

Kant has been shown wrong about the supposedly a priori truths of
geometry.

That's not really clear. Kant said Euclidean 3D geometry was the kind
we had in our heads, so to speak, and that's certainly arguable. He
also said that didn't mean it must be true of things as they actually
are, and in thinking that he seems to have been well ahead of his time.
Ok, what am I missing here? You seem to be in agreement with me.

Euclidean geometry is only a very small part of mathematics.

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