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Ideas for Pythagoras, Antisthenes (Ath) and Philolaus

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

554	Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]

644	For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]

1518	Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]

1519	Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]

375	When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato]

638	Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]

473	There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]

553	Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited

469	Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

476	Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]