 | Plato - Utopias - 1871 - 676 pages
...spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shop-keeper! How do you mean ? I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.... | |
 | Education - 1873 - 532 pages
...ways, to our desired end, if pursued in the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper ! * * * Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.... | |
 | Plato - 1873 - 654 pages
...spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shop-keeper! How do you mean ? I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.... | |
 | Education - 1873 - 630 pages
...ways, to our desired end, if pursued in the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper I * * * Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 pages
...spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shop-keeper! How do you mean ? I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.... | |
 | Plato - Philosophers, Ancient - 1875 - 730 pages
...spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper! How do you mean ? * I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. You... | |
 | Plato - Philosophers, Ancient - 1875 - 738 pages
...philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper! 525 BOOK VII. How do you mean ? 413 I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. You... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 794 pages
...the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper ! How do you mean? I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. You... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 796 pages
...the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper! How do you mean ? I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. You... | |
 | University of Chicago - Classical philology - 1895 - 260 pages
...inconsiderable effort of abstraction. There are no such units in nature. "I mean," says Socrates, 1 "that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. You... | |
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