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Indeed, the Ptolemaic character, called 'Simplicius' often stumbled over his own errors and seemed quite foolish.
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Galileo had moved out of bounds and even his name 'Simplicius' seemed designed to embarrass the Church.
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Although Olympiodorus comes across as a very learned man and guardian of traditional paideia, both literary and philosophical, his œuvre compares unfavorably, from a philosophical standpoint, with commentaries written by either Ammonius or Olympiodorus 'contemporaries such as Simplicius and John Philoponus.
Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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However, the most influential of these later commentaries was the one that Simplicius wrote after 529
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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Simplicius is not content to enumerate Eudorus among the ancient interpreters of the Categories.
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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The "fragment" in question, of course, is preserved by the Neo-Platonic scholar Simplicius, who flourished in the early to mid-sixth century CE.
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The "fragment" in question, of course, is preserved by the Neo-Platonic scholar Simplicius, who flourished in the early to mid-sixth century CE.
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The commentary tradition that found its culmination in Simplicius consisted in a sincere attempt to arrive at a better understanding of the Categories.
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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Athenodorus could have been content with offering a series of objections and difficulties, just as the Platonist Lucius and Nicostratus would do more than a hundred years later (Simplicius, In Cat 1. 18-20: “Others have chosen simply to present a series of difficulties (aporiai) arising from the text, which is what has been done by Lucius, and after him by Nicostratus, who took over for himself the job of Lucius”).
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 4. 1-5 and 10-14, J.
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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