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1. Which work of Plato's was most influenced by the mystical-scientific ideas of the Pythagoreans?
2. The 'Platonic bodies' which Plato describes in his 'most scientific work' (mentioned in the previous question) can best be characterized as what?
3. Above the entrance to his Academy was the following quote, 'Let none who has not learned ___________ enter here'. What goes in the blank?
4. Plato established an important method which has been passed down through the ages. That is that, when one has a problem that has already been solved, one can work backwards from it until a statement can be reached of which the veracity has already been determined. In other words, a method of attaining proofs. In which of his works was this method established?
5. The origins of the fallacious insistance that the universe is perfect and that all planetary bodies make perfectly circular motions in their orbits is often traced to the works of Aristotle. But did Plato share these views? Yes or no?
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