
Ep 9 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5 Part 2
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Learning About Perfect Circles From Experience
David: If we form a hypothesis that real circles resemble the abstract ones in specified ways, and we happen to be right, then we may well learn something about the abstract circles by looking at real ones. Plato did not realize this because he did not know about virtual reality. We can find physical objects orl processes that perfectly possess the properties of the specified abstractions. The fact that a night is chipped does not make the checkmake it delivers any less final. As it happens, a perfect euclidian circle can be made available to our senses. This is alla page 200, forty six of the fabric of reality. An David writes a conventional symbolic proof. Seems at first sight
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