
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
The Importance of Geometry
It really comes down to what Ramus thinks geometry is. Geometry is the art of measuring well, and insofar as something can't be measured, it's not geometrical. And how does he think that we would know this? I mean, it's the idea that there must be a mathematical structure at the basis of physical reality.
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