(May 25, 2017 at 9:04 pm)Succubus Wrote:(May 25, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I take it you probably never heard of the problem of universals.
No, not yet but I'm sure I'm about to. If you live on a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda galaxy and you come by a compass and a slice of paper and you decide for whatever reason to describe a circle then divide that circle by its diameter, what value will you obtain?
Residents in Andromeda will get an approximation of pi. The true value of pi is an absolute, not an average derived from measuring various round objects.