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Full Idea
People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared.
Clarification
Constructing a square equal in size to a circle is impossible
Gist of Idea
People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Time Without Change [1969], p.54)
Book Ref
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.54
A Reaction
A lovely concise illustration of the limits of reason. We might distinguish 'rational to us' from 'rational in itself', with only what is true or real aspiring to the latter status. But the latter might be unknowable by us.