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    Challenges→The claim that Plato structured his dialogues by Pythagorean harmonic ratios is not convincing

    The middle of Platonic dialogues, which would correspond to the octave ratio (2:1), does not typically contain the most philosophically important content

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    There is currently a very wide range of opinions about the relationship of Plato to Pythagoreanism. Many scholars both ancient and modern have thought that Plato was very closely tied to Pythagoreanism. In the biography of Pythagoras read by Photius in the 9th century CE (Bibl. 249) Plato is presented as a member of the Pythagorean school. He is the pupil of Archytas and the ninth successor to Pythagoras himself. If this were true then Plato would certainly be the most illustrious early Pythagor

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