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Reviewing the last chapter I am reminded of how awed I was by geometry when I studied it in high school, and of how that feeling deepened when, years later, I read the Elements itself. Based on what seemed indubitable principles, buttressed by what I found to be impeccable logic, Euclid’s edifice loomed in my consciousness as a marvel among sciences, unique in its clarity and unquestionable validity.
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“All bachelors are unmarried.” The example is Stephen Barker’s in Philosophy of Mathematics (Prentice-Hall, 1964), p. 7.
“diamonds” The happy metaphor is Morris Kline’s in Mathematics in Western Culture (Oxford, 1953), p. 430.
Some scholars. E.g., Bruno Snell in The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature (1960; Dover reprint, 1982); Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Houghton Mifflin, 1982).
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(2008). Geometry and the Diamond Theory of Truth. In: The Non-Euclidean Revolution. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4783-4_3
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