When he answered somebody's question today he referenced the "squared circle" example. I doodled on my paper for two seconds and once again proved I'm a nerdy smart-aleck.
Friday, October 10, 2008
A Squared Circle - I'm a Nerd
My philosophy teacher likes to use circles and squares to illustrate contradictions in nature. There's no such thing as a square circle; the essence of a circle cannot be present in a square, and vice versa. Even God cannot square a circle, not because of a limitation on his part but because of the definitions of the two shapes.
When he answered somebody's question today he referenced the "squared circle" example. I doodled on my paper for two seconds and once again proved I'm a nerdy smart-aleck.
When he answered somebody's question today he referenced the "squared circle" example. I doodled on my paper for two seconds and once again proved I'm a nerdy smart-aleck.
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I thought of that myself, believe it or not, when considering the handy phrase "a square circle" for use as a shorter phrase to refer to "an inherent contradiction". Among mathy people one has to reference four-sided triangles instead, which, alas, is hardly any shorter than "inherent contradiction".
But mathematically, zero squared is still zero, and hence, still a circle. Your philosophy teacher is right! :-P
Zero is not the same as a circle.
And "L is like a 7, but it's not!"
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