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- verb Present participle of
pythagorize .
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When with Arcesilaus (ca. 250 B.C.) there occurred in the Academy a reaction towards a supposedly Socratic skepticism (Burkert, p. 83) pythagorizing became an embarrassment.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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So it seems clear that his modifications were in the direction of greater mathematization, and so of pythagorizing.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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Never - theless we may say of Xenocrates that, faithful Platonist though he may have held himself to be, such modifica - tions of Plato's later metaphysics as he admitted were in the direction of pythagorizing.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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