Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, September 2, 2016
MAGNITUDES AND RATIOS IN AMERICA
AMERICA'S MAGNITUDES AND RATIOS ARE NOT PROPORTIONAL
"A ratio is a sort of relation in respect of size between two magnitudes of the same kind, " according to Euclid 's Elements Book 5 "Definitions, # 3.
And since he lets "magnitudes which have the same ratio be called proportional " in # 6;
It follows that the comparative magnitudes between blacks and whites, in American society, having never historically been of "the same kind," that such magnitudes are not geometrically proportional ratios, nor could they have been.
Hence, all of the studies measuring blacks and whites comparatively, in the United States of America are inherently erroneous according to Euclid 's Elements Book 5's ancient definitions of magnitude and ratio.