12 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [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] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |