¶ Bias on One Side of the Line
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Bias on One Side of the Line:
“I spoke about the early days in the Mediterranean area . . . when man thought the world was an infinite plane and that the Greek geometry was axiomatically logical. They defined a circle or a triangle as an area bound by a closed line of unit radius, or by three edges and three angles. They only accredited the area which is bound on one side of the line, simply because the area outside of the line was extended in all planar directions to infinity and was therefore undefinable. We have all been brought up at school to accredit only the integrity and identity of the area on one side of a line, which is to assume a fundamentally biased attitude towards all problems. That conditioned reflexing of bias is unnatural but is rampant in world society due to its early inculcation as the very base of what is thought of as geometrically reliable education.”
¶ Citations
- BEIRUT Address, p.23, 4-6 May’67
