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Later lives print akousmata as dietary and speech taboos of a closed group

Iamblichus English and SEP Pythagoreanism print bean-taboos, silence, and other akousmata as later tradition. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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Iamblichus English and SEP Pythagoreanism print bean-taboos, silence, and other akousmata as later tradition. A closed purity code can harm insiders and mark outsiders. Medium/low confidence on any 6th-century practice.

Context

This stores the taboo-police as printed.

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed akousmata are not a 6th-century rulebook autograph.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.22 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLater lives print akousmata as dietary and speech taboos of a closed group
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 June 1905 · verified

    Printed akousmata are not a 6th-century rulebook autograph.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagoreanismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactLater lives print akousmata as dietary and speech taboos of a closed group
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Later lives print akousmata as dietary and speech taboos of a closed group. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-akousmata-taboos

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-akousmata-taboos

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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