12 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
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] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |