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Alexander of Aphrodisias

Index Alexander of Aphrodisias

Alexander of Aphrodisias (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς; fl. 200 AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. [1]

103 relations: Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus, Active intellect, Alcinous (philosopher), Alexander, Alexander of Aegae, Alexander of Tralles, Alexander's band, Alexandrists, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, Ancient philosophy, Angelo Canini, Antisthenes, Aphrodisias, Archimedes, Archimedes Palimpsest, Aristocles of Messene, Aristotelianism, Aristotle of Mytilene, Bekker numbering, Cesare Cremonini (philosopher), Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, Commentaries on Aristotle, Common sense, Condemnations of 1210–1277, Corpus Aristotelicum, De fato, Desalination, Determinism, Diodorus Cronus, Distillation, Distilled water, Editio princeps, Epikoros, Eudorus of Alexandria, Eurytus (Pythagorean), Free will, Free will in antiquity, Galen, Gerson ben Solomon Catalan, Gersonides, Hellenistic philosophy, Herminus, Hippias Minor, History of alcoholic drinks, History of logic, Idealism, Index of ancient philosophy articles, Index of philosophy articles (A–C), Index of sociopolitical thinkers, ..., Isaac ben Moses Arama, Italian philosophy, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jacopo Zabarella, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, Jewish philosophy, Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400), Kenneth M. Sayre, Lamezia Terme Town Library, Latin translations of the 12th century, Liquor, List of ancient Greek philosophers, List of ancient Greeks, List of eponyms (A–K), List of philosophers (A–C), List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries, List of works by Averroes, List of writers influenced by Aristotle, Lucilio Vanini, Mantissa, Michael of Ephesus, Miles of Marseilles, Moses ben Joshua, Nicoletto Vernia, Nous, On Ideas, Outline of classical studies, Painted frieze of the Bodleian Library, Passive intellect, Peripatetic school, Phaenias of Eresus, Philip of Opus, Pietro Pomponazzi, Plato, Plotinus, Plutarch of Athens, Potentiality and actuality, Prior Analytics, Problems (Aristotle), Rainbow, Robert Sharples (classicist), Roman philosophy, Sense and reference, Sense and Sensibilia (Aristotle), Sicilian Questions, Simplicius of Cilicia, Sosigenes, Sosigenes the Peripatetic, Theodorus Gaza, Theophrastus, Xenarchus of Seleucia, Zeno (physician), 3rd century. Expand index (53 more) »

Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi

Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (عبداللطيف البغدادي, 1162 in Baghdad–1231), short for Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (موفق الدين محمد عبد اللطيف بن يوسف البغدادي), was a physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveler, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

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Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus

Abū Bishr Mattā b. Yūnus al-Qunnāʾī (ﺍﺑﻮ ﺑﺸﺮ ﻣﺘﺎ ﺑﻦ ﻳﻮﻧﺲ ﺍﻟﻘﻨﺎﻱء; c. 870-20 June 940) was a Christian philosopher who played an important role in the transmission of the works of Aristotle to the Islamic world.

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Active intellect

The active intellect (Latin: intellectus agens; also translated as agent intellect, active intelligence, active reason, or productive intellect) is a concept in classical and medieval philosophy.

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Alcinous (philosopher)

Alcinous (Greek: Ἀλκίνοος Alkinoos) was a Middle Platonist philosopher.

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Alexander

Alexander is a common male given name, and a less common surname.

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Alexander of Aegae

Alexander of Aegae (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος) was a Peripatetic philosopher who flourished in Rome in the 1st century AD, and was a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria.

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Alexander of Tralles

Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τραλλιανός) of Tralles in Lydia (or Alexander Trallianus, c. 525 – c. 605) was one of the most eminent of the ancient physicians.

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Alexander's band

Alexander's band or Alexander's dark band is an optical phenomenon associated with rainbows which was named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it in 200 AD.

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Alexandrists

The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project

The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project based at King's College London and under the direction of Richard Sorabji has undertaken to translate into English the ancient commentaries on Aristotle.

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Ancient philosophy

This page lists some links to ancient philosophy.

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Angelo Canini

Angelo Canini (Angelus Caninius) (1521–1557) was an Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar from Anghiari.

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Antisthenes

Antisthenes (Ἀντισθένης; c. 445c. 365 BC) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates.

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Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias (Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse (Ἀρχιμήδης) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

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Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors.

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Aristocles of Messene

Aristocles of Messene (Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ Μεσσήνιος), in Sicily,Suda, Aristokles was a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD.

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Aristotelianism

Aristotelianism is a tradition of philosophy that takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle.

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Aristotle of Mytilene

Aristotle of Mytilene (or Aristoteles, Ἀριστοτέλης ὁ Μυτιληναῖος; fl. 2nd century) was a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher in the time of Galen.

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Bekker numbering

Bekker numbering or Bekker pagination is the standard form of citation to the works of Aristotle.

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Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)

Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino (22 December 1550 – 19 July 1631) was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

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Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca

Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) is the standard collection of extant ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle.

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Commentaries on Aristotle

Commentaries on Aristotle refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Aristotle.

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Common sense

Common sense is sound practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge that is shared by ("common to") nearly all people.

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Condemnations of 1210–1277

The Condemnations at the medieval University of Paris were enacted to restrict certain teachings as being heretical.

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Corpus Aristotelicum

The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission.

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De fato

Cicero's De fato (Latin, "Concerning Fate") is a partially lost philosophical treatise written in 44 BC.

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Desalination

Desalination is a process that extracts mineral components from saline water.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes.

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Diodorus Cronus

Diodorus Cronus (Διόδωρος Κρόνος; died c. 284 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected to the Megarian school.

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Distillation

Distillation is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by selective boiling and condensation.

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Distilled water

Distilled water is water that has been boiled into steam and condensed back into liquid in a separate container.

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Editio princeps

In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.

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Epikoros

Epikoros (or Apikoros or Apikores or Epicurus; Hebrew: אפיקורוס, lit. "Heretic", pl. Epicorsim) is a Jewish term cited in the Mishnah, referring to one who does not have a share in the world to come: The rabbinic literature uses the term Epikoros, without a specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, yet it is apparent that the term is derived from the Greek philosopher's name, a philosopher whose views contradicted Jewish scripture, the strictly monotheistic conception of God in Judaism and the Jewish belief in the world to come.

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Eudorus of Alexandria

Eudorus of Alexandria (Εὔδωρος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and a representative of Middle Platonism.

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Eurytus (Pythagorean)

Eurytus (Εὔρυτος; fl. 400 BC), was an eminent Pythagorean philosopher who Iamblichus in one passage describes as a native of Croton, while in another, he enumerates him among the Tarentine Pythagoreans.

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Free will

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.

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Free will in antiquity

Free will in antiquity was not discussed in the same terms as used in the modern free will debates, but historians of the problem have speculated who exactly was first to take positions as determinist, libertarian, and compatibilist in antiquity.

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Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 AD – /), often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire.

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Gerson ben Solomon Catalan

Gerson ben Solomon Catalan, also known as Gerson ben Solomon of Arles, was a French author who lived at Arles, France in the middle of the thirteenth century.

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Gersonides

Levi ben Gershon (1288–1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.

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Hellenistic philosophy

Hellenistic philosophy is the period of Western philosophy that was developed in the Hellenistic civilization following Aristotle and ending with the beginning of Neoplatonism.

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Herminus

Herminus (Ἑρμῖνος; 2nd century) was a Peripatetic philosopher.

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Hippias Minor

Hippias Minor (Ἱππίας ἐλάττων), or On Lying, is thought to be one of Plato's early works.

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History of alcoholic drinks

Purposeful production of alcoholic drinks is common and often reflects cultural and religious peculiarities as much as geographical and sociological conditions.

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History of logic

The history of logic deals with the study of the development of the science of valid inference (logic).

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Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is the group of metaphysical philosophies that assert that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial.

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Index of ancient philosophy articles

This page is a list of topics in ancient philosophy.

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Index of philosophy articles (A–C)

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Index of sociopolitical thinkers

The following is an index of sociopolitical thinkers listed by the first name.

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Isaac ben Moses Arama

Isaac ben Moses Arama (1420 – 1494) was a Spanish rabbi and author.

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Italian philosophy

Italy over the ages has had a vast influence on Western philosophy, beginning with the Greeks and Romans, and going onto Renaissance humanism, the Age of Enlightenment and modern philosophy.

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Jabir ibn Hayyan

Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (جابر بن حیانl fa, often given the nisbas al-Bariqi, al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi or al-Sufi; fl. c. 721c. 815), also known by the Latinization Geber, was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.

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Jacopo Zabarella

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Zabarella (5 September 1533 – 15 October 1589) was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician.

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Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (c. 1270 – c. 1340) (ידעיה הבדרשי) was a Jewish poet, physician, and philosopher; born at Béziers (hence his surname Bedersi).

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Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.

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Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400)

This article covers the influence of Jewish and Islamic philosophy on each other, focusing especially on the period from 800–1400 CE.

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Kenneth M. Sayre

Kenneth M. Sayre is an American philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Notre Dame (ND).

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Lamezia Terme Town Library

The Lamezia Terme Town Library is located in the historic centre of the former village of Nicastro and more precisely in the Nicotera-Severisio historical building located in the Tommaso Campanella square.

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Latin translations of the 12th century

Latin translations of the 12th century were spurred by a major search by European scholars for new learning unavailable in western Europe at the time; their search led them to areas of southern Europe, particularly in central Spain and Sicily, which recently had come under Christian rule following their reconquest in the late 11th century.

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Liquor

Liquor (also hard liquor, hard alcohol, or spirits) is an alcoholic drink produced by distillation of grains, fruit, or vegetables that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.

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List of ancient Greek philosophers

This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek.

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List of ancient Greeks

This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks.

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List of eponyms (A–K)

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name.

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List of philosophers (A–C)

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List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries

Philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically: See also.

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List of works by Averroes

According to a chronology over Averroes’ writings by Joseph Kenny OP, Averroes first writings date from his age of 31 (year 1157).

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List of writers influenced by Aristotle

Many philosophers and other writers have been significantly influenced by Aristotle.

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Lucilio Vanini

Homage to Giulio Cesare Vanini at the place of his death. Lucilio Vanini (15859 February 1619), who, in his works, styled himself Giulio Cesare Vanini, was an Italian philosopher, physician and free-thinker, who was one of the first significant representatives of intellectual libertinism.

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Mantissa

Mantissa may refer to.

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Michael of Ephesus

Michael of Ephesus or Michael Ephesius (Μιχαήλ Ἐφέσιος; fl. early or mid-12th century AD) wrote important commentaries on Aristotle, including the first full commentary on the Sophistical Refutations, which established the regular study of that text.

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Miles of Marseilles

Miles of Marseilles was a Provençal-Jewish physician and philosopher of the Middle Ages.

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Moses ben Joshua

Moses Narbonne, also known as Moses of Narbonne, mestre Vidal Bellshom, maestro Vidal Blasom, and Moses Narboni, was a medieval Catalan philosopher and physician.

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Nicoletto Vernia

Nicoletto Vernia (c. 1420, in Chieti – October 31, 1499, in Vicenza) was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua.

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Nous

Nous, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real.

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On Ideas

On Ideas (Greek: Περὶ Ἰδεῶν, Peri Ideōn) is a philosophical work which deals with the problem of universals with regards to Plato's Theory of Forms.

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Outline of classical studies

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical studies: Classical studies (Classics for short) – earliest branch of the humanities, which covers the languages, literature, history, art, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

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Painted frieze of the Bodleian Library

The painted frieze at the Bodleian Library, in Oxford, United Kingdom, is a series of 202 portrait heads in what is now the Upper Reading Room.

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Passive intellect

The passive intellect (Latin: intellectus possibilis; also translated as potential intellect or material intellect), is a term used in philosophy alongside the notion of the active intellect in order to give an account of the operation of the intellect (nous), in accordance with the theory of hylomorphism, as most famously put forward by Aristotle.

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Peripatetic school

The Peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece.

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Phaenias of Eresus

Phaenias of Eresus (Φαινίας ὁ Ἐρέσιος, Phainias; also Phanias) was a Greek philosopher from Lesbos, important as an immediate follower of and commentator on Aristotle.

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Philip of Opus

Philip (or Philippus) of Opus (Φίλιππος Ὀπούντιος), was a philosopher and a member of the Academy during Plato's lifetime.

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Pietro Pomponazzi

Pietro Pomponazzi (16 September 1462 – 18 May 1525) was an Italian philosopher.

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Plotinus

Plotinus (Πλωτῖνος; – 270) was a major Greek-speaking philosopher of the ancient world.

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Plutarch of Athens

Plutarch of Athens (Πλούταρχος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 350 – 430 AD) was a Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist who taught at Athens at the beginning of the 5th century.

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Potentiality and actuality

In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are principles of a dichotomy which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics and De Anima, which is about the human psyche.

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Prior Analytics

The Prior Analytics (Ἀναλυτικὰ Πρότερα; Analytica Priora) is Aristotle's work on deductive reasoning, which is known as his syllogistic.

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Problems (Aristotle)

The Problems (Προβλήματα; Problemata) is an Aristotelian or possibly pseudo-Aristotelian, as its authenticity has been questioned, collection of problems written in a question and answer format.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Robert Sharples (classicist)

Professor Robert William (Bob) Sharples (28 May 1949 – 11 August 2010) was a British educator and authority on ancient Greek philosophy.

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Roman philosophy

Roman philosophy was the philosophical thought in ancient Rome, from the Republic of Rome to the Roman Empire.

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Sense and reference

In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an innovation of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper "On Sense and Reference"; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), reflecting the two ways he believed a singular term may have meaning.

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Sense and Sensibilia (Aristotle)

Sense and Sensibilia (or On Sense and the Sensible, On Sense and What is Sensed, On Sense Perception; Greek: Περὶ αἰσθήσεως καὶ αἰσθητῶν; Latin: De sensu et sensibilibus, De sensu et sensili, De sensu et sensato) is one of the short treatises by Aristotle that make up the Parva Naturalia.

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Sicilian Questions

Sicilian Questions (المسائل الصقلية, al-Masāʼil al-Ṣiqilliyya, in Arabic) is the name of Ibn Sab'in's masterpiece, one of the leading representatives of the Andalusian mystic of the 13th century.

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Simplicius of Cilicia

Simplicius of Cilicia (Σιμπλίκιος ὁ Κίλιξ; c. 490 – c. 560) was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and Damascius, and was one of the last of the Neoplatonists.

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Sosigenes

There were several historical figures called Sosigenes.

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Sosigenes the Peripatetic

Sosigenes the Peripatetic (Σωσιγένης) was a philosopher living at the end of the 2nd century AD.

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Theodorus Gaza

Theodorus Gaza or Theodore Gazis (Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, Theodoros Gazis; Teodoro Gaza; Theodorus Gazes), also called by the epithet Thessalonicensis (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), was a Greek humanist and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (the Palaeologan Renaissance).

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Theophrastus

Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος Theόphrastos; c. 371 – c. 287 BC), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos,Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, Ancient Botany, 2015, p. 8.

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Xenarchus of Seleucia

Xenarchus (Ξέναρχος; 1st century BC) of Seleucia in Cilicia, was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian.

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Zeno (physician)

Zeno (or Zenon, Ζήνων; 3rd and 2nd centuries BC) was a Greek physician.

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3rd century

The 3rd century was the period from 201 to 300 A.D. or C.E. In this century, the Roman Empire saw a crisis, marking the beginning of Late Antiquity.

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Alex. Aphr., Alexander Aphrodiseus, Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Alexander of aphrodisias.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Aphrodisias

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