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Do circles objectively exist?
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2021-10-26 at 7:55 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Any 4-sided shape where all 4 sides are not exactly equal in length is not a square. Pretty sure you aren't going through life questioning the existence of squares though, because that would be stupid. You question circles because that's the shape this masturbatory question stereotypically takes. That's the only reason you're asking. Simply reject the circle question out of hand the same way you did with the square, you pseud.
Sure like I said do you think squares objectively exist? Probably not IMO. It's likely just a convenient approximate idea. -
2021-10-26 at 8:18 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe What you're suggesting is an "actual circle" is just an idealized fantasy inspired by circles that exist like the example I posted.
Those aren't circles that exist, they are just rough approximations that are close enough to fool you into thinking they are some imperfect form of an idealised fantasy.
In reality the idealised fantasy doesn't exist and those things that exist, while suggestive of it, are not circles.
Circles are objects where every point on the perimeter is equidistant from a fixed midpoint.
In reality there isn't even a well defined concept of a midpoint. Depending on the frame of reference of some really fast ship, what you think is an approximation of a circle might appear to the person on the ship to be extremely squashed, enough to appear as a dark line that fades out at the edges.
So what you are calling "circles that exist" are actually subjective fantasies constructed out of situational convenience. -
2021-10-26 at 8:24 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:32 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:35 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:42 PM UTCWhy can't a perfect square exist? That one seems easy.
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2021-10-26 at 8:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmG There are no perfect circles in nature because of the unsteady quantum nature of the universe. At some point any physically real geometry breaks down.
So is the concept of a circle something that exists objectively? Or is it a useful subjective perception we share?
Tell that to the monk who drew one -
2021-10-26 at 8:52 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:53 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:54 PM UTC
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2021-10-26 at 8:54 PM UTCThat's a cool Gramma I love her
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