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Like progressives critiquing liberalism from the left, or nontheists critiquing theism via the OTF (Outsider Test for Faith), Karatani critiques the intellectual history of Western philosophical, religious, and political thought, from the East.What I ...more "
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"Pythagoras located [original substance] in number. .... [fundamentally rejecting Ionian natural philosophy]. ... discern[ing] as fundamental... not physis [but] number... [Numbers'] mode of existence is not the same as that of individual material things. To see relations as more real ...and then locate in them the arche is to identify abstraction as reality...[converting his Ionian view] ... into a form of idealism." — Oct 16, 2019 12:05PM
"Pythagoras located [original substance] in number. .... [fundamentally rejecting Ionian natural philosophy]. ... discern[ing] as fundamental... not physis [but] number... [Numbers'] mode of existence is not the same as that of individual material things. To see relations as more real ...and then locate in them the arche is to identify abstraction as reality...[converting his Ionian view] ... into a form of idealism." — Oct 16, 2019 12:05PM
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