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by DiscourseFan 857 days ago
There is only one definition of a circle, and its universal. Anything else is not a circle.
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There is not only one definition of a circle. There are many definitions, all of which are consistent with each other.
Ok, but there is only one circle
Obviously not.
If there were two circles, the second would be isomorphic to the first, therefore, in pure geometry there is only one circle. I suppose by some sort of empirical measure, there would be circles of different sizes, but as we already stated, empirically observed circles are actually ellipses, so in fact there is actually only one circle.