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9 Post author: David_Gerard 14 November 2012 12:55PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2012 05:25:33AM *  2 points [-]

Consider also the parallel 'postulate', reluctantly introduced as an axiom in Euclid. People tried to prove it as a theorem for two thousand years, until it was realized that its negation defined entirely different kinds of geometry.