# The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy publishes a public Pythagoras entry

Date: 2006

## The fact

IEP’s [Pythagoras](/people/pythagoras) page is a completed public-philosophy instrument independent of SEP. The dated carrier is iep.utm.edu.

## Context

A second encyclopedia is an access path. It still warns about sources.

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.

## Evidence and sources

Official encyclopedia, Loeb, or heritage pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Pythagoras (https://iep.utm.edu/pythagoras/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

An IEP entry is not an autograph.

An IEP entry is not an autograph.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pythagoras: https://factrail.ai/people/pythagoras

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/pythagoras/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/py-iep-entry