Marius comments on Settled questions in philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Marius 17 February 2011 05:41:20PM 1 point [-]

And much later, it was shown that the geometric "truths" that were settled questions do not describe the physical world as had been settled. Indeed, it turned out that there are many geometries other than Euclidean geometry. Solved problems need not stay solved, even in mathematics.