On 12/13/2010 7:53 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
This still leaves open, it seems to me, whether the right-angled triangle somehow existed from the beginning and whether all we did was discover this entity and its attendant structural properties - all of which were there from the beginning. Or did we invent the right-angled triangle, which not only was never perfectly physically embodied but never existed prior to our development of this mathematical 'object' or 'concept'?
The right triangle, from before any beginning, was a set of relations such that the truth of a-squared+b-squared=c-squared, in reference to right triangles, was always the case.
However Donal also certainly knows that the word "exists" is not a predicate, nor are its verb-form declensions meaningful verbs. (Ask Robert Paul, which I have already done by asking you to do so.) "Contrite unicorns exist."
The questions seems to be, "Where does the truth of a-squared+b-squared=c-squared, in reference to right triangles, exist?"
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