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Gabriel asked:
I'm looking for the exact reference (Aristotle?) about Pythagoras being the first philosopher to use the term philosophia.
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Try Aristotle's discussion of Pythagoras in MetaphysicsI.5.
Matthew Del Nevo
www.sicetnon.com