Posted: Aug 27, 2017 2:21 pm
scott1328 wrote:a-theos means "without God"
It's not quite as straightforward as that, though. In fact, that seems to be a christianised meaning of a term that long predates the religion.
VazScep wrote:The etymology of "proposition" interests me, but I think I'd need Tracer Tong to help me out with it. The standard translation of Euclid's Elements uses the word "proposition" as mathematicians would nowadays use the word "theorem." But in many cases, what Euclid is proposing is something he can do.
Do you have an example of where Euclid is translated like this? I can have a look at the text to see what term he uses.