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Full Idea
Number is the ruling and self-created bond which maintains the everlasting stability of the contents of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Self-created numbers make the universe stable
Source
Philolaus (On the Cosmos (lost) [c.435 BCE], B23), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.77
| 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] |
| 22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |