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Square circles (the taxicab geometry)

Karl Menger

pp. 217-219

Square circles or round squares have haunted many and diverse philosophical writers as the archetype of the impossible and the absurd; they were assigned a place near — or rather below — golden mountains, unicorns and mermaids. They have been discussed by Thomists, existentialists and linguistic philosophers as well as by Herbart, Bergson, Russell and many, many others.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9347-1_21

Full citation:

Menger, K. (1979). Square circles (the taxicab geometry), in Selected papers in logic and foundations, didactics, economics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 217-219.

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