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  • Although the publication of Vesalius's anatomical dissections in 1543 would disprove many of these theories, including the role of the vermis, we find an elaboration of Avicenna's arrangement — with vermis intact at the fore — in the early 17th century illustrations of Robert Fludd's treatises (fig. 4.10).

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • In at least three passages of the Incoherence al-Ghazâlî criticizes Avicenna's understanding of the modalities.

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

  • Avicenna's philosophy offers philosophical explanations of key Muslim tenets like God's unity

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

  • In other words, esse essentiae is what separates a mere figment from a res proper, an essence, or to use Avicenna's terminology, a “nature”.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Avicenna's view of the modalities follows the statistical model of Aristotle and connects the possibility of a thing to its temporal actuality (Bäck 1992).

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

  • Avicenna's Chapter, ˜On the Relative™, in the Metaphysics of the Shifā,” in Hourani 1975.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • The origins of this doctrine lie in Avicenna's account of radical contingency that considers the distinction between Necessary and contingent to lie in the simplicity of existence of the Necessary producing the complexity of the existence and essence of the contingent, where the contingent is an existent to whom accidents pertain bundled in what is known as their ˜essence™.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • The second work, the Intentions of the Philosophers (Maqâsid al-falâsifa), is an adapted Arabic translation of the parts on logics, metaphysics, and the natural sciences in Avicenna's Persian work Philosophy for

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

  • Avicenna's famous proof for the Necessary Being began with the concept of existence, proceeded with a modal distinction between necessity and contingent, and arrived at the exigency of a Necessary Being.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • He denies Avicenna's premise that possibility needs a substrate.

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

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