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• Simplicius (De Anima 211,30-212,27) – phantasia
  27 de janeiro, por Cardoso de Castro

  [Aristotle DA 428a24: ‘So it is clear that imagination (phantasia) would be neither opinion accompanied by sense perception nor produced by sense perception, nor a combination (sumploke) of opinion and sense perception’.] Plato in the Sophist [264A] and Philebus [39Bff.] posits that imagination consists in a mixture (mixis) of opinion and sense perception, and with these words Aristotle seems to be making an objection to this position. But in truth he show; how one must understand mixture by (...)

• Sorabji (PC3:56-58) – primeiros comentadoras das categorias asristotélicas
  9 de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro

  SORABJI, Richard. The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: A Sourcebook. Vol. 3: Logic and Metaphysics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
  On the standard view, Plotinus’ disciple and editor, Porphyry, rescued Aristotle and made him central to the Western curriculum once and for all, with the Categories as the first work in the curriculum. In the seventeenth century, Jesuits still chose the Categories as the first work to be translated into Chinese, as being the basis of all (...)