why was he so against non-euclidean geometries?
>>25315341to preserve his sanity from the lovecraftian horror
no one had invented them at that point, all everyone knew was euclid
>>25315341Meme answer: it wasn't around when Kant was writing. He could neither oppose nor support it.Serious answer: you can quite literally just take his statement from either A or B version and change it to something like:>triangles don't need to add up to 180 degrees>if less then hyperbolic>if more then ellipticalThis doesn't damage his philosophy at a core level. It's still controversial but it's also likely he wouldn't have tried to oppose, if anything he probably would have ignored until such a time he couldn't.
He’s not one of them gay homo flags unlike op
>>25315341non-euclidean geometry is just what happens when you bend space itself.
>>25315341he was autistic
>>25315341jea doods*hits bong*I figured it all out now*coughing*space and time are not really real*hits bong again*because geometry can't be a science otherwise.........
Everything he said was refuted within a century but there are still retards who insist on starting from his foundation.
>>25315341something about his face makes me want backhand him like a wayward bitch
>>25315341Because the idea of matter or mass having any physical (or non-physical) effect on 'space' would have seemed manifestly absurd. Space was never a 'thing' in the world, nor does it have any absolute existence. It was always a 'form of pure intuition'. How can the presence of a thing, e.g. a planet, affect a pure form of intuition? That is the question that no one has even asked because no one understand either Einstein or Kant.
>>25315383T b h it's suspected several people discovered them independently, including euler, but didn't want to deal with the giant shit storm it would cause so kept their discovery private. I think Euler was one, based on one of his journals. I forget if the dates line up right for that being when Kant was alive.
>>25319447I need to sleep I forgot I had already mentioned euler. I hate insomnia >>25318266What foundation would you start from?
