Ep. 111: There Are Four Lights
Young Heretics
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The Four Ways of the Quadrivion
iit basically is going to lead us into, as i said, what will become the quadruvien. So there's other kind of, i think, really astonishing, amprescent insight of plato's that this is the first step on the course of true philosophy, is a knowing number. The pyphthagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts. One half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude. Magnitudes as either stationary or in motion. Ar arithmetic studies quantities as such. Music the relations between quantities, geometry, magnitude at rest, spheric or astronomy, magnitude inherently moving.
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