13 ideas
6900 | A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
6956 | At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway] |
7335 | The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway] |
1757 | The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
3028 | The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect [Eucleides] |
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] |
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] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |