Avicenna
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Prodigious Memory of a Child Prodigy
He was a child prodigy, and that by the age of ten, for example, he had mastered put on already. He went on to study arithmetic, medicine and logic, and in these disciplines, he was so impressive that he was able to outstrip the ability of his master within a year. And yet, he still manages to engage with a very range of islamic ideas and also ideas from the greek tradition. His father was a scholar, as i understand itand as was his brother.
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