RE: The Modal Ontological Argument - Without Modal Logic
February 17, 2014 at 11:42 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2014 at 11:43 am by SteelCurtain.)
I think the point is that the statement that the sides of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees is not truthful. Just like the majority of your arguments here AKD, they depend totally upon defining things how you want them. In spherical geometry or hyperbolic geometry, triangles (yes they are triangles, not Euclidean triangles, but triangles) can have angles that add up to more or less than 180 degrees. In fact, there are ideal hyperbolic triangles whose angles add up to 0 degrees (whose lines are actually straight, but appear curved when projected on a Euclidean plane).
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