- Additional Authors
- Corti, Lorenzo.
- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; volume167
- Uniform Title
- Pros arithmetikous. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Pros arithmetikous.
- Sextus Empiricus Against the arithmeticians
- Subject
- Note
- A translation and commentary of Sextus' part IV, of Against the professors, known as Pros arithmetikous.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2023027011
- OCLC
- ssib053564730
- Author
Sextus, Empiricus.
- Title
Against the arithmeticians [electronic resource] / Sextus Empiricus ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Lorenzo Corti.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; volume167
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Corti, Lorenzo.