Quantities or Qualities? A Forgotten Debate about Sounds between Ptolemy and Porphyry
In his Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics, Porphyry debunks Ptolemy’s quantitative theory of pitches by demonstrating that pitches are qualitative attributes of sound. I argue that Porphyry’s main concern is to save the phenomenological dimension of sound while preserving the possibility of a quantit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Phronesis
Year: 2023, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Pages: 236-267 |
| Further subjects: | B
Porphyry
B Harmonics B Ptolemy B Emergentism B Categories B Aristotle |
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