Ralph Hertle

The kilogram has been redefined. In science that is major good news. That means that the Ancient Greek scientific, philosophic, and geometric principles of scientific concept [magnitude to the Ancient Greeks], even-ness, and continuity of principle are the current causal scientific standard. Interestingly, the methods of manufacturing a sphere permit the precise counting of the number of atoms, and the units of mass, in the kologram object. The kilogram has survived more accurate than ever. Science in that sphere has now moved forward and become more precise and more knowable. To find out how those principles, e.g., even-ness and continuity, are some of the most basic causal principles to the Industrial Revolution read David Pye. Unfortunately, Dr. Harry Binswanger's destructive criticism of the whole of the geometry of the Ancient Greeks is still the standard of Objectivism, and his lectures on the subject are still being sold by ARI. He says that the straight line, for example, should not be defined by length and even-ness, and that it should be defined by direction from a point and not to a second point. His view requires a direction, however, a direction requires a straight line. Pos hoc ergo propter hoc. The former is demonstably true, and the latter is a definition by a non-essential characteristic. His theories on that topic are demonstrably false or are impossible to demonstrate. A major contradiction exists, and for reasons that I fail to understand the Objectivists are not wanting to confront the issue. ARI should withdraw the CD, or sell it with a warning label. Support the geometry of the Ancient Greeks and the Industrial Revolution. Ralph Hertle