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Full Idea
No existing things would be clear to anyone, either in themselves or in their relationship to one another, unless there existed Number and its essence.
Gist of Idea
No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence
Source
Philolaus (On the Cosmos (lost) [c.435 BCE], B11), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 1.03.8
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.75
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
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] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |