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HoP 177 - To Be or Not to Be - Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Arguments of Avocenis and Atusi

Razi and Atusi are fighting the same dispute as one we find in Latin medieval philosophy between Thomas Aquinas and Duns Skodas. In that case, the opening move was an analogy theory like that of Atusi. This was then heavily criticized by Skodas who thought that existence just means existence, even in God's case. We will of course get into all that in future episodes on the Latin philosophers.

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