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- Title
THE RECEPTION OF AVICENNA'S THEORY OF MOTION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY.
- Authors
Ahmed, Asad Q.
- Abstract
This article explores the reception of Avicenna's theories of motion in the sixth/twelfth century. Avicenna had devised innovative ways of understanding motion in response to various challenges and conditions that the preceding philosophical tradition and his own internal critique had posed. Motion for him was either the state of being between two termini or the traversal of an interval, where the former of these was the extramentally real type and the latter a product of the imagination. In the sixth/twelfth century, the implicit critique of some leading scholars led to the adoption of the thesis in some circles that motion by traversal is extramentally real. This position was accepted as viable both by those who endorsed the atomic and the continuous theory of bodies.
- Subjects
MOTION; ATOMIC theory; TWELFTH century; CRITIQUES (Art education); PHILOSOPHICAL analysis; AVICENNA, 980-1037
- Publication
Arabic Sciences & Philosophy, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0957-4239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0957423916000023