-From very hot dry Jerusalem
Avinoam Mann
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Michael Detlefsen wrote:
>
> In the preface to the first edition of Dedekind's WsuwsdZ, he refers to
> the Greek phrase (my transliteration) 'aei ho anthropos arithmetidzei'as
> a well-known (bekannt) saying. I'm a little embarrassed to say, however,
> that it is not so well-known as to be known by me. Could someone please
> tell me who authored this 'well-known' phrase ... and tell me what they
> meant by it. To me it says something like "Man is (or has) always (been)
> 'arithmetizing' or 'numbering' or 'counting'". But that supposed that
> arithmetidzo is a verb, and I can't find an entry for it in my lexicon,
> much less a pointer to the author of the 'well-known' saying.
>