Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy : : Three Innovators Between Philoponus and Avicenna / / Nicholas Allan Aubin.
"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus's arguments from finite power, and then...
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