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5105 | The incommensurability of the diagonal always exists, and so it is not in time [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: The incommensurability of the diagonal always exists, and so it is not in time. | |
From: Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 221b36) | |
A reaction: This must make Aristotle sympathetic to Platonism in mathematics, even though he rejects the full theory of Forms. Such a view is not uncommon among modern philosophers. Presumably the incommensurability is true in all possible worlds? 'In'? |