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The anticipated movie adaptation of 'Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe' is finally hitting the big screen with a masterful answer to a controversial scene from the surface material.
abstract Consensus is building that, for Aristotle, number cannot be a heap and so must rather be a tight unity (a whole). Scholars commenting on the relevant passages typically conclude, further, that number is a hylomorphic unity. After showing that these passages do not support such readings, I examine Aristotle's statements about the ontological status of number. I find that his position is that number is a special kind of heap: a measured heap. Since a measured heap has identity criteria, it is distinct from a mere heap; and since the arrangement of its parts makes no difference to its i...