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A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen in the West.
Jon McGinnis
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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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, 1938 Explores the cultural and intellectual context of Avicenna's ...
Jakubovskij, A. Ju.
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Old Remedies for Epilepsy: Avicenna\u27s Medicine. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: The history of epilepsy and its treatments dates back to at least 4 millennia. Avicenna, c. 980 AD in Bukhara, Khorasan-1037 in Hamedan was a Persian-speaking Iranian physician, who has many recommendations and suggested various therapies for
Yaghoubi, E +2 more
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Why Do Women Using Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices? A Cross-Sectional Study
Diversity, 2022 Indonesia is one of the developing countries with the population being in the fourth position after China, India, and the United States. Therefore one of the efforts made by the government in suppressing the rate of population growth by Family Planning ...
Misdayanti Misdayanti +5 more
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021 Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, several small cohorts have reported the recurrent occurrence of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE), particulary pulmonary embolism, in serious patients hospitalized in intensive care units. We report the case of
Phany Brunelle Issanga Maloumbi +5 more
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Creazione e provvidenza. Influssi della metafisica di Avicenna sul "De potentia" di Tommaso d'Aquino [PDF]
, 2022 Le Quaestiones disputatae de potentia sono una delle opere più importanti dell’intera produzione di Tommaso d’Aquino: in esse vengono discusse alcune tra le dottrine più rilevanti dell’intero impianto teologico tomista. In particolare, tra le altre, le
De Marchi, Giovanni
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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