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Works in Euclidean Format
ontophile
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Posted 04/17/08 - 11:18 PM:
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Who, besides Spinoza, has written a book or paper in the axiom/postulate/theorem format, regardless of the topic (morality, metaphysics, epistemology, etc.)? Are Newton's Principia and Russell's Principia in that format? I understand that Lewis Carroll was a logician and that he authored many strange sorites. Did he ever write anything of a Euclidean fashion? There must be foundationalists out there that have written works in this style! No?

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rabeldin
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Posted 04/18/08 - 02:18 AM:
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ontophile wrote:
Who, besides Spinoza, has written a book or paper in the axiom/postulate/theorem format, regardless of the topic (morality, metaphysics, epistemology, etc.)? Are Newton's Principia and Russell's Principia in that format? I understand that Lewis Carroll was a logician and that he authored many strange sorites. Did he ever write anything of a Euclidean fashion? There must be foundationalists out there that have written works in this style! No?

Thank you in advance

Its so much wordier that one would have to be obsessive to do that.

Leave no assumption unquestioned.
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Posted 04/19/08 - 10:12 AM:
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus?

OTOH I might be exhaustively wrong about everything I've ever thought--with the possible exception of this sentence.
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Posted 04/25/08 - 05:13 PM:
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jdrw wrote:
Wittgenstein's Tractatus?


No, I wouldn't call that Euclidean format. He doesn't offer definitions, proofs, etc. for each point.
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Posted 05/07/08 - 07:20 AM:
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Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. He saw the Elements open to proposition 47, and fell in love with the style of convincing.
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