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对于小古说的这点一直是有争议的,在毕达哥拉斯那里,事物即使不是数,也至少与数相似。毕达哥拉斯这里所谓数是本原的意思似乎比在别的希腊哲学家那里更强。比如大英百科全书里在谈到毕达哥拉斯主义的数论和形而上学时就说:
According to Aristotle, number speculation is the most characteristic feature of Pythagoreanism. Things “are” number, or “resemble” number. To many Pythagoreans this concept meant that things are measurable and commensurable or proportional in terms of number—an idea of considerable significance for Western civilization. But there were also attempts to arrange a certain minimum number of pebbles so as to represent the shape of a thing—as, for instance, stars in a constellation that seem to represent an animal. For the Pythagoreans even abstracted things “have” their number: “justice” is associated with the number four and with a square, “marriage” with the number five, and so on. The psychological associations at work here have not been clarified.
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Posted: 2008-04-21 10:48 |
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