Assertion: euclidean geometry | /r/HasProperty | true
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text: All this convinced both Bolyai and Lobachevskii that the new geometry could be a description of physical space and it would henceforth be an empirical task to decide whether Euclidean geometry or non-Euclidean geometry was true.
text: All this convinced both Bolyai and Lobachevskii that the new geometry could be a description of physical space and it would henceforth be an empirical task to decide whether Euclidean geometry or non-Euclidean geometry was true.
text: The epistemological significance of non-Euclidean geometry rests more on the possibility that it could be true in whatever way that Euclidean geometry could be true.
text: This is very difficult to visualize, and for people brought up to believe Euclidean geometry was 'true' this was counter-intuitive and unacceptable.