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Against the arithmeticians

Title
Against the arithmeticians [electronic resource] / Sextus Empiricus ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Lorenzo Corti.
Author
Sextus, Empiricus.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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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
  • Sextus, Empiricus
  • Skepticism > Early works to 1800
  • Arithmetic > Philosophy > Early works to 1800
  • Mathematics, Greek > Early works to 1800
  • Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
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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Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Corti, Lorenzo.
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