Pythagorean number doctrine
the Pythagoreans
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Metaphysics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages
The Pythagorean doctrine of number is cited and reported as one of the specific positions surveyed in the account of number theories.
while the Pythagoreans at an earlier date had arrived at definitions of some few things—whose formulae they connected with numbers—e.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation
The Pythagoreans are named explicitly as source of the cited doctrine about six.
And the Pythagoreans, hence, I think, from the becoming of the world according to the prophet, hold the number six perfect, and call it "midway-straight," and "marriage," because it is in the middle of the straight number — that is, of the ten and the two;
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