Theology of Arithmetic, Introduction - Reading Notes
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Starts with Aetius (~1-2 century AD), whose surviving works recorded the ideas of the earliest Greek Philosophers.
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Paradox of Number and the Decad, per Pythagoras.
... he says that the nature of Number is the Decad..
... ten is complete at four.
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the above refers to the Tetraktys, the geometric symbol formed out of the cummulative sum of the numbers 1 to 4 (1+2+3+4 = 10)
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The greeks didn't have a dedicated series of symbols for numbers, so they used letters to represent digits, or more often, dots, which represents pebbles they used to do calculations on a counting table.
It is said that because of this, the common experience of numbers in Greece is as a series of patterns.
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Represents bost a minimal oneness and a maximal ten-ness. The amount and depth of
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It is very likely that