The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol. 1: Translations of the by A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley

By A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley

Quantity I offers the texts in new translations by means of the authors, and those are observed by means of a philosophical and historic remark designed to be used through all readers, together with people with no history within the classical international. With its thesaurus and indexes, this quantity can stand on my own as an self sustaining software of research.

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The second argument B 8—<> (cfTT4A~7)"isperfiaps less successful because it appeals to an alternative pair of defining attributes - the power to interact and the power to house things which interact - which are not in themselves contradictories. e. unoccupied space from space occupied by body. The charge rests on what appears to be good evidence, for example A 3, B I and 3 and 10A 5. Nor can he be defended simply by the observation of some scholars that, since atomsjre in constant motion chrough space and it is only on the macroscopic level that thingsjeem stationary, chere is strictly speaking ho occupied space (see 11).

Correct yardstick' - the identification of divine and good with the constituents of equability - by reporting 'a word of truth, as it appears to me to be'. The Pyrrhonist is as entitled as anyone else to tell us how things appear to him (cf. 1 H ) , and to guide his life accordingly. He is also entitled to invite those who accept his indeterminable world to draw from it the same practical inferences that he does, and to describe the resulting mental state in the conventional language of approval (cf.

Paradoxically, it is something self-evident, yet can only be understood by 'analogical reasoning' - first drawing directly on experience to collect an appropriate set of accidents, then abstracting time as the common measure of them all (B6). Since it depends for its existence on the bodies whose motion etc. it measures, it certainly cannot exist per se. Demetrius' attempt (C I and 5) to extract from B 5 the precise metaphysical status of time clearly relies on Epicurus' description of time as 'a certain peculiar accident' associated with days, motions, etc, (viz.

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