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WHAT MAKES A PYTHAGOREAN PYTHAGOREAN?
The present paper characterizes the Pythagoreans as those thinkers that maintain that the lógos of the universe is revealed by a mathematical theory of proportion.
John A. Fossa
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Plato and Pythagoreanism [PDF]
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the 19th century have been more skeptical. In Plato and Pythagoreanism, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato's ...
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Since the end of the 18th century, researchers have often confused Orphism and Pythagoreanism, leading to the creation of the syntagma Orphico-Pythagorean.
Corentin Voisin
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The authors consider the content of the motif of mauling of an ungulate by a feline predator and a griffin and the form of its realization in the Scythian animal style of the Eastern European area.
Liubomyr S. Dobrovolskiy +1 more
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Pythagorasçı Felsefede Tekliğin İlkesi Olarak Külli Ruh: Monad
Pythagoras ve Pythagorasçılık, antik felsefe geleneğinde farklı bir yere sahiptir. Bunun sebebi Pythagorasçılığın Orfizm, Hint ve Mısır dinlerinin felsefe ile harmanlanmasından oluşan eklektik yapısıdır.
Aynur Çınar
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Arnošt Kolman’s Critique of Mathematical Fetishism [PDF]
Arnošt Kolman (1892–1979) was a Czech mathematician, philosopher and Communist official. In this paper, we would like to look at Kolman’s arguments against logical positivism which revolve around the notion of the fetishization of mathematics.
Mácha, Jakub, Zouhar, Jan
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The invisible heartbeat. The beauty and soul of mathematics [PDF]
These notes contain a summarised version of the contents of the lectures “The invisible heartbeat. The beauty and soul of mathematics” and “The borders of our prejudices”, given at the Casa de Cultura in Girona in October 2015 and September 2018 ...
Mañosa Fernández, Víctor
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Architecture, City and Mathematics: The Lost Connection [PDF]
The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece.
Almantas Samalavicius
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Frege on the Generality of Logical Laws [PDF]
Frege claims that the laws of logic are characterized by their “generality,” but it is hard to see how this could identify a special feature of those laws.
Beaney M. +26 more
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