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Biography of Pythagoras (Greek Philosopher and Mathematician)
Title: Biography of Pythagoras (Greek Philosopher and Mathematician)
Category: Science & Technology / Mathematics
Details: Words: 667 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Biography of Pythagoras (Greek Philosopher and Mathematician)
Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is later development. It is also hard to say how much of what we are told about the life of Pythagoras is trustworthy; for a mass of legend gathered around his name at …showed first 75 words of 667 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 667 total…howls of a beaten dog. Empedocles seems to be referring to him when he speaks of a man who could remember what happened ten or twenty generations before. It was on this that the doctrine of Recollection, which plays so great a part in Plato, was based. The things we perceive with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly.
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