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None Provided9 The two questions that are stated in the Heritage handout, are indeed two distinct questions. The question to be addressed is of the world being constituted primarily by flux or permanence. This question is significant because in modern society, I believe that there is no clear-cut answer, just a position somewhere in the middle, whereas the Presocratic philosopher, Pythagoras, philosophized that the world Pythagoras is probably best-known for his contributions in the field of mathematics, specifically in geometry, although, he is also well-known as a philosopher as well. Pythagoras philosophized that “things are numbers” and felt that the physical world could be entirely defined by mathematical formulas and ratios (Heritage Reader 80). He, unlike the earlier Egyptian mathematicians who were interested in mathematics for architectural purposes, was interested in mathematics just because that is what he wanted to learn more about. “Pythagoras [also] turned geometrical philosophy into a form of liberal education by seeking its first principles in a higher realm of reality” (80). Mathematics was basically his reality. This is the reason I believe that Pythagoras philosophized as he did. Mathematics is permanent. For example, the Pythagorean theory, “The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides enclosing the right angle,” is true for every right angled triangle-no matter if it is in the past, the present, or the future. This can be applied to the a Bibliography:

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