Something Is an Object Because It Is Countable, Theano Says

She is one of the philosophers who created the math

Daniel Roncaglia
3 min readApr 4, 2021

Theano disagreed with the interpretation that Pythagoras said the number generates everything.

How can something that does not exist conceived to generate?

Pythagoras said that the number is something that you can count.

That is from the concept of imitation. Things are like numbers.

This thing is primary concerning another secondly, according to sequentially attributed.

The philosopher’s understanding of Pythagoras doctrine is different from Aristotle’s.

Theano’s interpretation is in a fragment attributed to her, “On Piety”:

“I have discovered that many Greeks believe Pythagoras said that numbers produce everything. This theory is problematic: how can things do not exist to conceive of creating? But he did not say everything comes from the number but happens according to the number. Because the primary order is in number. By sharing this in counting, something…

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