doxography

Heraclitus, with his reduction of everything to fire, is the token monist; Empedocles, with his four elements, represents finite pluralism; and Anaxagoras, read through the lens of Aristotelian doxography as making all the ˜homoeomerous™ or ˜like-parted™ stuffs the elements, is treated as fundamentally sui generis.

Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

The point of this psychological doxography is not unlike that of Incorporeal Substances: the soul is a “simple substance,” separate from body.

Al-Kindi Adamson, Peter 2006

There is an Ecphantus in the catalogue, but he is listed under Croton rather than Syracuse, so it cannot be certain whether he is the Ecphantus described in the doxography.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

The identification of the five celestial zones depends on the discovery of the obliquity of the ecliptic, and some of the doxography duly assigns this discovery to Pythagoras as well and claims that Oenopides stole it from Pythagoras

Pythagoras Huffman, Carl 2006

This part of Diogenes 'doxography is the only place in the whole Diogenes tradition where we have a reference to a really scientific theory as a justification of Diogenes' views.

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

Eubulus version is of an idyllic character which has its counterpart in a hedonistic theme in the doxography

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

What is new in the Diogenes doxography is that it is applied to a “cosmos-state.”

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

The doxography contains in section 73 a passage of scientific, theoretical character.

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

Diodorus Cronus | doxography of ancient philosophy | fatalism | future contingents | logic: ancient | logic: modal | logic: temporal |

Dialectical School Bobzien, Susanne 2004

Diogenes Laertius ” see doxography of ancient philosophy

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