Aren't you aware that A was P's pupil, that our A is mostly students' lecture notes, that virtually all of A's published writings have disappeared forever, that for more than a millennium no philosopher saw an antagonism between the two, and that many of A's seeming criticisms of P'tonic doctrines are taken directly from P's own works (cf. the "third man argument" in Metaphysics which is found word for word in the Parmenides)?
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)
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