History of philosophy in a nutshell: geometric approach

At the beginning (early philosophers; physio-logos), there was this form (sphere):

Plato cut it in 2 pieces: In order to look inside (circle):

The circle (i.e. a two-dimensional field) remained the field of philosophy until Galileo who observed the cosmos, the stars, ... spheric forms and initiated (with Copernic, Kepler ...) a revolution in philosophy: earth (and by extension man) is not at the center of the universe.

The 2 dimensional field was however not entirely forgotten: the three angle form (which led to the triangle ‘thesis/antithesis/synthesis’ of Hegel) is in a two-dimensional field.

Existentialism went back to the sphere. In making the choice that the universe is the result of hazard (dice throwing type of event), they excluded the hypothesis that there “might be” something inside the center (i.e. inside the zero point) of the sphere.

What if there was something?

What if zero is not "zero"? What if the first truth is not about 'true or not true" (2 dimensions) but a three-dimensional continuum?

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