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  1. A penetrating question in the history of ideas: Space, dimensionality and interpenetration in the thought of avicenna.Jon Mcginnis - 2006 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 16 (1):47-69.
    Avicenna's discussion of space is found in his comments on Aristotle's account of place. Aristotle identified four candidates for place: a body's matter, form, the occupied space, or the limits of the containing body, and opted for the last. Neoplatonic commentators argued contra Aristotle that a thing's place is the space it occupied. Space for these Neoplatonists is something possessing dimensions and distinct from any body that occupies it, even if never devoid of body. Avicenna argues that this Neoplatonic notion (...)
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  • Geometrical Objects as Properties of Sensibles: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry.Emily Katz - 2019 - Phronesis 64 (4):465-513.
    There is little agreement about Aristotle’s philosophy of geometry, partly due to the textual evidence and partly part to disagreement over what constitutes a plausible view. I keep separate the questions ‘What is Aristotle’s philosophy of geometry?’ and ‘Is Aristotle right?’, and consider the textual evidence in the context of Greek geometrical practice, and show that, for Aristotle, plane geometry is about properties of certain sensible objects—specifically, dimensional continuity—and certain properties possessed by actual and potential compass-and-straightedge drawings qua quantitative and (...)
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  • Avicenna on the Nature of Mathematical Objects.Mohammad Saleh Zarepour - 2016 - Dialogue 55 (3):511-536.
    Some authors have proposed that Avicenna considers mathematical objects, i.e., geometric shapes and numbers, to be mental existents completely separated from matter. In this paper, I will show that this description, though not completely wrong, is misleading. Avicenna endorses, I will argue, some sort of literalism, potentialism, and finitism.
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  • Aristotle's Mathematicals in Metaphysics M.3 and N.6.Andrew Younan - 2019 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (4):644-663.
    Aristotle ends Metaphysics books M–N with an account of how one can get the impression that Platonic Form-numbers can be causes. Though these passages are all admittedly polemic against the Platonic understanding, there is an undercurrent wherein Aristotle seems to want to explain in his own terms the evidence the Platonist might perceive as supporting his view, and give any possible credit where credit is due. Indeed, underlying this explanation of how the Platonist may have formed his impression, we discover (...)
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  • Geometrical objects' ontological status and boundaries in Aristotle. 유재민 - 2009 - Sogang Journal of Philosophy 18 (null):269-301.
    아리스토텔레스는 『형이상학』 13권 2장에서 기하학적 대상은 실체적으로 존재할 수 없음을 증명한다. 플라톤주의자들은 기하학적 대상이 실체적으로 감각대상 안에 있거나, 감각대상과 떨어져서 존재한다고 주장하는 자들이다. 아리스토텔레스는 13권 3장에서 기하학적 대상은 질료적으로 감각대상 안에 존재한다고 주장한다. 필자는 ‘질료적으로’의 의미를 ‘부수적으로’와 ‘잠재적으로’로 이해한다. 기하학적 대상은 감각대상 안에 있지만, 실체적으로가 아니라 부수적으로 존재하는 것들이다. 기하학적 대상은 그 자체로 변화를 겪을 수 없다. 변화를 겪는 직접적인 주체는 감각대상이다. 이 감각대상이 분할되거나, 또 다른 감각대상과 결합할 때 기하학적 대상은 간접적으로 변화를 겪는다. 기하학적 대상의 잠재성은 지성에 의해 추상과정을 (...)
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