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  • 71plenitude, principle of — Name given by the American historian of ideas A. O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) to a principle he detected in much Greek and medieval thought, that the existence and abundance of creation must be as great as the possibility of existence, commensurate… …

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  • 72Presocratics — Although the term ought to refer to any Greek philosopher from c. 600 BC to c. 400 BC, the last year of Socrates life, it is customarily reserved mainly for those thinkers who attempted systematic cosmologies and were centrally concerned with the …

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  • 73racecourse paradox — See Zeno s paradoxes …

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  • 74rule of inference — Lewis Carroll raised the Zeno like problem of how a proof ever gets started. Suppose I have as premises (1) p and (2) p →q . Can I infer q ? Only, it seems, if I am sure of (3) (p & p →q ) →q . Can I then infer q ? Only, it seems, if I am sure… …

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  • 75stadium paradox — See Zeno s paradoxes …

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  • 76ЗЕНОН КИТИЙСКИЙ — [греч. Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς] (IV III вв. до Р. Х.), древнегреч. философ, основатель стоической философской школы (см. ст. Стоицизм). Жизнь и сочинения Точная дата рождения З. К. неизвестна, приблизительная датировка дается по ряду косвенных… …

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  • 77porch — n. 1. Portico, entrance way, vestibule. 2. [With The prefixed.] The Stoic philosophy, philosophy of Zeno, school of the Stoics …

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  • 78stoicism — n. 1. Stoical philosophy, philosophy of Zeno. 2. Apathy, insensibility, coolness, indifference, coldness, phelgm, cold blood, impassibility, nonchalance …

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  • 79the porch — The Stoic philosophy, philosophy of Zeno, stoicism …

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  • 80History of logic — Philosophy ( …

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