PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Number leads thought to a Parmenidean reality.
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“what are these wonderful numbers about which you are reasoning, in which, as you say, there is a unity such as you demand, and each unit is equal, invariable, indivisible…”
- After arithmetic come plane geometry, solid geometry, and then astronomy. Plato does not mean observational astronomy, however, but a pure science of motion.