"Aristotle seems to find only a verbal difference between Plato and the Pythagoreans. The metaphor of [numbers'] "participation" was merely substituted for that of [numbers'] "imitation." ...Aristotle’s ascription of the doctrine of "imitation" to the Pythagoreans is... justified by the Phaedo."
January 1, 1970
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