(To put my question in context: I (personally) believe it is rational to assume the following are historical figures:
- Socrates,
Democritus,
Plato,
Aristotle,
Alexander the Great,
Epicurus,
Julius Ceasar,
Pontius Pilate,
Philo,
Seneca Jr,
Josephus,
Tacitus,
etc etc [I'm comfortable listing at least 100 other names in the pre-100AD period].
)
However, I don't have the same ontological comfort vis-a-vis Pythagoras...
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So anyway, how would you characterize your confidence that Pythagoras existed as a historical person?