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I think to understand the rejection of geometry as a prerequisite of philosophy we really need to understand the sort of claims that were made for it. These claims have in fact never stopped being made, and find a fascinating expression in, of all people, Abraham Lincoln; (Quote) The assumption here is that if one understands how to prove a geometric theorem, one will equally know how to prove a philosophical one, as here; m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPiw7bKwL2M But this involves a logical sleight-of-…

Thanks Cassius! I thought DeWitt had made the same point but wouldn't have known where to grab the citation.