Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'De Anima'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

1729	We perceive number by the denial of continuity [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Number we perceive by the denial of continuity.
	From: Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 425a19)
	A reaction: This is a key thought. A being (call it 'Parmenides') which sees all Being as One would make no distinctions of identity, and so could not count anything. Why would they want numbers?