• This work is often attributed to Iamblichus, and no other, but the attribution is not considered definite, but is from the translation by Robin Waterfield: The Theology of Arithmetic : On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers (1988) - Theologumena arithmeticae: ad rarissimum exemplum Parisiense emendatius descripta (1817) Latin text online.
If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it." in the context of "Iamblichus on Theological number quoted in Lionel March in Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Number in Architecture, Wiley, 8 December 1998, p. 31
• This work is often attributed to Iamblichus, and no other, but the attribution is not considered definite, but is from the translation by Robin Waterfield: The Theology of Arithmetic : On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers (1988) - Theologumena arithmeticae: ad rarissimum exemplum Parisiense emendatius descripta (1817) Latin text online." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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