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grbs-7591	Tarán, Leonardo	Aristotle’s Classification of Number in Metaphysics M 6, 1080a15-37	1978	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3769	176	65	This interpreta­ tion causes him to contend that Aristotle has omitted the belief in three different combinations of numbers and that he has confused incomparable numbers the units of which are all comparable (a, ii) with mathematical number (b) the units of which must necessarily be all comparable.5 It would be more than remarkable, however, if Aristotle were guilty of the confusion Ross ascribes to him, since in the very next chapter of Metaphysics M he states that if all the units are comparable and undifferentiated there is only mathematical number,6 whereas if all the units are incomparable this number cannot be mathematical number.7 But, because in maintaining (a, ii) he mentions mathematical number as an example of number with the units all comparable and undifferen­ tiated and because after mentioning (a, iii) he goes into a rather lengthy digression to explain the difference between mathematical number and incomparable numbers such as (a, iii), he probably felt that it would be anticlimactic to mention (b) as the second and final part of his classification.	cache/grbs-7591.pdf	txt/grbs-7591.txt