"Philolaos and his followers cannot have regarded the Unlimited in the old Pythagorean way as Air; for... they adopted the theory of Empedokles as to that "element," and accounted for it otherwise. ...[T]hey can hardly have regarded it as an absolute void; for that conception was introduced by the Atomists. ...[T]hey meant by the Unlimited the ', without analysing that... further."
Pythagoreanism

January 1, 1970

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