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Against the arithmeticians

Uniform Title
Pros arithmetikous. English (Corti)
Title
Against the arithmeticians / Sextus Empiricus ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Lorenzo Corti.
ISBN
9789004679498
9004679499
9789004679504
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
vi, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes
A translation and commentary of part IV of Sextus' Pros mathēmatikos, known as Pros arithmetikous (Against the arithmeticians).
English, with some excerpted text in Greek.
Summary
"Arithmetic deals with numbers: but what is the nature of their existence, of their parts, and of their relationship with countable items? These questions nourished a lively debate between the Platonico-Pythagorean tradition (trying to answer them) and the Pyrrhonian tradition (trying to show that these answers were unsatisfactory). The debate lies at the heart of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Arithmeticians. The present book aims at facing the remarkable historical and philosophical questions raised by Sextus' treatise by offering a new translation of it and the first dedicated commentary to it"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Sextus Empiricus Against the arithmeticians
Other formats
Online version: Sextus, Empiricus. Against the arithmeticians. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2024
Series
Philosophia antiqua ; v. 167.
Philosophia antiqua, volume 167
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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