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Plotinus On The Objects Of Thought, Eyolfur Emilsson
Plotinus On The Objects Of Thought, Eyolfur Emilsson
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The strong identity Plotinus maintains between the intellect and its objects, the ideas, can be explained in terms of his acceptance of certain sceptical arguments; in particular he holds that unless the subject and the object of thought are strictly identical, there is room for doubt and error. Moreover, I suppose that Plotinus believed that without this identity the traditional account of the forms as at once ontological and epistemological standards cannot hold. Thus, I am suggesting that we see Plotinus' position here as that of a Platonist who says to his fellow Platonists: if you wish to hold, as …
Knowledge Of Atoms And Void In Epicureanism, David J. Furley
Knowledge Of Atoms And Void In Epicureanism, David J. Furley
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
There is an obvious paradox in the theories of the Atomists. If knowledge comes to us by means of sensation, how are we to explain the atomist's knowledge of the basic propositions of his special theory: that the world consists of void, which is called 'the intangible', and atoms, which are said to be imperceptibly small? Epicurus' method was to set up a pair of contradictories - either there is a void or there is not, either matter is infinitely divisible or it is not - and then to present an argument for rejecting one of them.