The paper deals with the origin of the discovery of incommensurability in the ancient Greek mathematics, this paper details the thesis that it stems from the harmonical studies of the Pythagoreans concerning the section of the tone. In addition it outlines the idea that that discovery entailed a krisis, not in the presumed Pythagorean reduction of continuum to discrete, but in the philosophical connection between language and reality
Incommensurability, Music and Continuum: a cognitive approach
BORZACCHINI, Luigi
2007-01-01
Abstract
The paper deals with the origin of the discovery of incommensurability in the ancient Greek mathematics, this paper details the thesis that it stems from the harmonical studies of the Pythagoreans concerning the section of the tone. In addition it outlines the idea that that discovery entailed a krisis, not in the presumed Pythagorean reduction of continuum to discrete, but in the philosophical connection between language and realityFile in questo prodotto:
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