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Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation. (2013)
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Horky, P. S. (2013). Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation. Classical Quarterly, 63(2), 686-712. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838813000189

In the twenty-fourth aporia of Theophrastus' Metaphysics, there appears an important, if ‘bafflingly elliptical’, ascription to Plato and the ‘Pythagoreans’ of a theory of reduction to the first principles via ‘imitation’ (μίμησις): Πλάτων δὲ καὶ οἱ... Read More about Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation..