What is a point? Again! – Dialogue about Euclid’s definitions– D11

Euclid, Euclid, Euclid. Why are you giving us such a hard time? We wanted to start doing some geometry, but before we did that Ingrid suggested that we took an overview on the definitions so they would be clear to all of us before we started. Do you guess the result of that? Another hour or so talking about what was a point! I do have to admit that it was more clarifying although we didn’t had a general agreement. There were two sides, one that stood that a point could exist by itself (Alejo and I), and the other that a point could only exist by a reference to something meaning that a point is only a concept of location (Bert and the rest of MPC’ers). At the end, we didn’t agree, but it was a good mental exercise. We managed to review some other 5 or 6 definitions, but neither did we finished them nor got to the propositions part.