"It is no wonder that no contradiction was found under the hypothesis of the acute angle, for... the geometry developed from a collection of axioms comprising a basic set plus the acute angle hypothesis is as consistent as the Euclidean geometry developed from the same basic set plus the hypothesis of the right angle; that is, the parallel postulate is independent of the remaining postulates and therefore cannot be deduced from them."
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