<p dir="ltr">RDR wrote:<br>
> I think this is a category error.<br>
><br>
> When the Rambam says "God can't make a square circle" he's not saying<br>
> "God can't deny a tautology", he's saying "there are synthetic a priori<br>
> propositions which must be true in any world which God could have<br>
> made."<br>
><br>
> The example we were discussing is the prophet saying "Looking at evil is<br>
> beneath God." What you are doing is illustrating that we (following<br>
> Hilbert) construe geometry to be a complex group of tautologies. But the<br>
> Rambam would not have agreed with Hilbert. He thought geometry<br>
> consisted of synthetic a priori statements.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Pardon my ignorance, but I didn't quite understand. What is the difference between "a complex group of tautologies" and "synthetic a priori statements?"<br>
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