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Both mathematics and metaphysics deal with abstract concepts. Neither a point nor a line is more than an idea; the points and lines we see are different from the mathematical definitions of them. Pythagoras gave a prominent place to mathematics in his philosophy and claimed that the universe was built on Number.

-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 1 : Divine Order of The Universe > # 106