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The "slow and gradual" reduction of numbers from qualitative elements to pure quantities
In a well-known book of classical scholarship, Jaeger's Paideia, Vol.1, there is the claim that "it has been justly observed that the Greek conception of number originally contained a qualitative ...
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What was the "rigorous" definition of "number" for the Pythagoreans?
I am not sure if this is the right stackexchange for this question. However, I'm wondering about the following thing:
We know n+ow that there are rational and irrational numbers. Pythagoras however, ...
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