Juan Gabriel Ascencio González

This article offers a key to understanding of Gadamer’s thesis about «number» (arithmos – Zahl) as the paradigm of noeticity, drawing from both his platonic and his hermeneutical writings. After a brief understanding of ‘number’ as Gadamer sees it, and a historical context regarding the authors surrounding Gadamer’s thought on the subject, the article examines more closely the philosophical underpinnings of ‘number’ under three perspectives: its relation to language, how ‘differences’ exist in a numeric unity, and how its two limit points – totality and atoms – are to be thought of...