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HIPPASUS OF METAPONTUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 516 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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METAPONTUM , See also:Pythagorean philosopher, was one of the earliest of the disciples of See also:Pythagoras. He is mentioned both by See also:Diogenes Laertius and by See also:Iamblichus, but nothing is known of his See also:life. Diogenes says that he See also:left no writings, but other authorities make him the author of a ,uva71KOs AOyos directed against the Pythagoreans. According to See also:Aristotle (Metaphysica, i. 3), he was an adherent of the Heraclitean See also:fire-See also:doctrine, whereas the Pythagoreans maintained the theory that number is the principle of everything. He seems to have regarded the soul as composed of igneous See also:matter, and so approximates the orthodox Pythagorean doctrine of the central fire, or See also:Hestia. to the more detailed theories of Heraclitus. In spite of this divergence, Hippasus is always regarded as a Pythagorean. See Diogenes viii. 84; See also:Brandis, See also:History of See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:Philosophy; also PYTHAGORAS.

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