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I. INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND NAMES A analogy between the problems of Abraham Bibago--on corporeal form the identity of the Sefirot and of the 589. prime mover with God 461-462; on Abraham Ibn Daud-and Maimonides Maimonides' view as to the hylic 323; Emunah Ramah used by Cres intellect 607; refutes Crescas on cas 22; infinite magnitude 347, 354- the measurability of time by rest 355; infinite number 476, 481; 649; whether the spheres are com definition of quantity 418; enumer posed of matter and form 598. See ation of discrete and continuous also Index of Passages. quantities 420; implied criticism of Abravanel, Isaac,-his commentary Saadia and Ibn Gabirol420; meaning on Morek 27; on Maimonides' igno of 'position' 689; meaning of 'relation rance of Averroes 323; on Crescas' in position' 689; the four elements ignorance of Algazali's and Aver not moved by themselves 671; roes' Tahafut 16-17; on Crescas' nature the cause of the motion of knowledge of Algazali's Malw$id the elements 672; enumeration of 11, n. 48; prime matter 600, cor four categories of motion 502; cir poreal form 580, 584, 585, 589-590; cular motion is motion in position reference to Leo Hebraeus 600; as 505; as immediate source of Crescas' signs Platonic source to Avicenna's discussion of matter and form 570; theory as to the composition of the deduction of the opposition of rna tter spheres of matter and form 597. and form 5 72; relativity of the terms See also Index of Passages. matter and form 579; corporeal Absolute-relative-Hebrew and Ara form 587-588; why matter is sub bic terms for 497-498. stance 573; why form is substance Abu 'Imran Moses Tobi 459, 501. 574; enumeration of six substances Accident-general and particular 575-576; on Ibn Gabirol's universal sense oft he term 99, 5 77 ; meaning of matter 599, 600-601; spheres are accident 103,576; accident and form composed of matter and form 598; 259, 263; forms are accidents ac motion of the spheres is voluntary cording to Kalam 5 70; classification 535; accidents 576. See also Index of accidents 103, 307, 686-687; of Passages. divisibility of accidents 104-105, Abraham bar I;Iiyya-his versions of 265, 602-603; cannot exist apart Aristotle's definition of time 638, from corporeal objects 666; the 639, 640; time not a substance 641; accidental is only possible 82, 249, time partly real and partly ideal 551. See also Accidental Motion 661-662. See also Index of Passages. under Motion. Abraham Shalom-criticizes Crescas Accidental-two meanings of the term for not mentioning authorities 6; 434. 715
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Action and passion-whether there is soul 667; his title for the Posterior motion in the categories of action Analytics 526. and passion 72, 231, 506, 513. Alfarabi-both commentator and au Actuality and potentiality-cause of thor 322; and Maimonides 323, 570; transition from potentiality to ac corporeal form 586; place of the tuality must be external 89-90, spheres 434; spheres not composed 299-301,676-679; why creation does of matter and form 596. See also not imply a transition from poten Index of Passages. tiality to actuality in God 90, 303, Algazali-and Maimonides 323 ; Ma- 679; Maimonides' explanation dif 8a$id used by Crescas 10; Hebrew fers from that of Crescas 679-680. translations of the M a8a ~id 10, n. 44 ; Air-has relative motion upward 141, Ma8a~id popular text-book among 161, 337, 412 ; is relatively light and Jews 10; refutation of the view as to heavy 239, 412; its relation to fire the influence of the Tahafut on the 450; has weight in its own place Or Adonai 11-18; arguments against 539; different explanations as to infinite magnitude 347, 384, 386; why it descends into a ditch 185, infinite number 477, 478, 488-489; 239, 412-414; its relation to fire infinite number of causes and effects 450. 483, 493, 496; infinite number of Albalag, Isaac,- why air descends into disembodied souls 484-485, 486; a ditch 413. essential and accidental infinite causes 494; his version of Aristotle's Albertus Magnus 343. definition of place 362; the proper Albo, Joseph,-re-echoes class-room places of the elements 445; the four discussions of Crescas 30; the Sefirot categories of motion 502, 504-505. 459; criticism of Aristotle's defini in what sense motion is to be found tion of place 448, 457; answers in all the ten categories 517; Aristotle's objection to the identi qualitative change is in no-time fication of place with vacuum 443; 464; quantitative change involves identifies place with vacuum 455; locomotion 520; accidental and par the proper place of earth 446, 456; ticipative change 531- 532; the four the place of the outermost sphere elements not moved by themselves 440; outside the universe there is 671; form is the cause of the motion 'nothing' 115, 422; time 656, 558; of the elements 673 ; contends that existence of time prior to creation the motion of the spheres is natural 663-664. See also Index of Passages. and not voluntary 536 ; enumerates Alexander of Aphrodisias- and Mai four continuous quantities 420; his monides 322 ; his commentary on versions of Aristotle's definition of the Physics known to Crescas time 639, 640; classification of theo through A verroes 9; outermost ries as to composition of body 569; sphere does not exist in place 43 7; arguments against atomism 570; de outermost sphere immovable 433, duction of the opposition of matter 437; spheres not composed of matter and form 592; matter recognizable and form 596; every motion is in only in thought 591 ; two meanings time 543; magnetic attraction 563; of the term 'form' 573-574; cor Plato's view on time 635; the hylic poreal form 585-587; definition of intellect 606; immortality of the substance 573; why form is sub-
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stance 573-5 74; enumeration of four pative motion 534; what kind of substances 575; two meanings of accidental motion cannot be eternal the term 'accident' 5 77; classifica 551 f.; whether the four elements tion of accidents 686; the accidents are moved by themselves 670-671, of 'smooth-rough' and 'rare-dense' 674; deduction of the opposition of 688; universals 665-666; meaning matter and form 593 ; arguments of 'relation' 689; of 'position: 690' against atomism 5 70; corporeal form threefold classification of arguments 585; classification of various views 397; spheres composed of matter on time 635; version of Aristotle's and form 595; admissibility of posi definition of time 63 7; why time is tive attributes 14. See also Index of described as having necessary ex Passages. istance 662; meaning of the expres Alkindi-first of Moslem philosophers sion passing from potentiality to 321; enumerates six species of mo actuality 676-678; meaning of 'po tion 500. sition' 689, 690; two senses of the Altabrizi-commentary on the term 'possible' 698. See also Index twenty-five propositions 1, 2, 3; of Passages. contemplated commentary on the Alteration-motion in respect to qual entire Moreh 19, n. 65; characteri ity 500-501, 627-628. See also zation of the anonymous translation Motion. of his commentary 19-21; the anon Anaximander-innumerable worlds in ymous translation quoted 20, 21,381, an infinite void 118; denial of dis 382; 384, 484; Isaac ben Nathan's tinction of above and below 463. translation used by Crescas 21; Ancient-to what philosophers ap- extent to which Altabrizi was used plied 320-321. by Crescas 22-23; his three argu Anger 547, 548. ments against an infinite magnitude Animal-cause of the motion of 297. 3, 346, 381, 384, 386-387; infinite Apollonius 52,465. number 477; distinction between Appetite 547. number of magnitudes and number Arama, Isaac, 538. of incorporeal beings 480; infinite Arguments-classification of the vari- number of causes and effects 482- ous types of arguments 326, 337, 483; infinite number of disembodied 397. souls 484; distinction between a Aristotle-referred to as "the Greek" force infinite in intensity and a force 539; acclaimed as superior to all infinite in time 613; three definitions other philosophers 325; evidence of of motion 525; the four categories of an oral interpretation accompanying motion 505; in what sense motion is Aristotle's writings among Jews and to be found in all the ten categories Arabs 7-8; Crescas' knowledge of 507, 517; change in substance is in Aristotle 7; impossibility of infinite no-time 503; circular motion is magnitude 40-41, 43, 49-50, 51; motion in position 505; locomotion impossibility of infinite number 65, is involved in quantitative motion, 476; impossibility of infinite causes but is imperceptible 521; terms and effects 65 , 482; impossibility of motion and change not convertible a vacuum 54, 55, 56, 59; finitude of 522; classification of motion and the universe 115; impossibility of change 532; accidental and partici- many worlds 117, 473-474; differ-
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ence between place and space 116, 337-338, 410-411; as to the weight 352; definition of place 44, 362; of air 539; his enumeration of variety of Arabic and Hebrew ver discrete and continuous quantities sions of his definition of place 362- 420 ; his definition of truth 324, 456- 365 ; his theory of proper places 45, 457. See also Index of Passages. 445-446; as to what is the proper Ashkenazi, Saul ha-Kohen, 589. place of earth 445-446; as to the Asymptote 52. place of the spheres and the universe Atomists--called 'ancient' by Mai 45, 432 ff.; distinction between monides 321; vacuum 54, 344, 400; change and motion 70, 498; his two identification of space with vacuum definitions of motion 75, 511; his 356; characteristic features of atom enumeration of the categories of ism 120-121, 569-570; Crescas' change and motion 498 ff.; as to the revival of atomism 121; magnetic category of circular motion 505; as attraction 563; innumerable worlds to motion in the categories of action, in an infinite void 118. passion and relation 506; his classi Attributes-admissibility of positive fication of motion and change 76, divine attributes 13-14; of extension 531; meaning of accidental motion and thought 122-123. 534; on the motion of pleasure and Avempace--mentioned by Crescas 5; pain 448, 449; as to whether motion known to Crescas through A verroes is involved in the act of thinking 9; his theory of original time of 54 7, 548, 549; the nature of the motion 57, 183- 185, 205,271, 404ff., circular motion of the spheres 53 7; the place of the spheres and the on time 634 ff.; his treatment of the universe 434, 438, 449; motion of problem of time 94-95; his enumer the spheres natural and not volun ation of the views of his predecessors tary 53 7; everything movable is on time 634; variety of Arabic and divisible 544; on possibility and Hebrew versions of his definition of potentiality 691. time 636-640; on the transformation Averroes- and Maimonides 323; Jew of the elements into one another ish Averroism different from scho 450; his enumeration of the views of lastic Averroism 31; which of his his predecessors on the composition commentaries used by Crescas 8-10; of bodies 570; his deduction of the his Tahajut al-Tahajut unknown to opposition of matter a.nd form 99, Crescas 11-18; method of Jewish 5 71; matter recognizable only in commentaries on Averroes 27; his thought 591; his definition of sub use of the expression "he said" 329; stance 102, 573; why matter is analysisof argumentsagainst infinite substance 103, 573 ; why form is magnitude 39, n. 2; why an infinite substance 103, 573 ; his enumeration magnitude must be infinite in all of substances 57 5 ; distinction be dimensions 429-430; in finite number tween possibility and necessity 109- 477, 489; division of number into 110; distinction between potentiality even and odd 219, 477, 489; distinc and possibility 111-112, 691-692; tion between infinite spatial things the nature of the substance of the and infinite non-spatial things 486- spheres 596; his theory of lightness 487; infinite number of disembodied and weight and of upward and souls 488; infinite number of causes downward motion 58- 59, 78--79, and effects 482, 492; essential and
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accidental causes 494--495; distinc losophers 321; known to Crescas tion between a force infinite in through secondary sources 10; argu intensity and a force infinite in ments against infinite magnitude time 612- 614; version of Aristotle's 34 7, 383; distinction between infinite definition of place 362, 364; the spatial things and infinite non proper place of earth 445 ff.; place spatial things 477, 486--487; infinite of the spheres and the universe number of disembodied souls 485, 433ff., 438ff., 449; outside the uni 486; infinite number of causes and verse there is 'nothing' 115, 421; effects 482--483; circular motion is definitions of motion 523-524, 529- motion in position 439, 505, 506; 530; categories of motion 507; the only four categories of motion 507; two subjects of motion 510-511; his enumeration of the four cate circular motion not motion in posi gories of motion 71, 507; form is tion 506; refutation of Avempace's cause of the motion of the elements theory of original time of motion 673; motion of the spheres is volun 404ff.; the medium an inseparable tary motion 535; change in substance condition of motion 409--410; ac is in no-time 503; explanation of quisition of knowledge is in no-time upward motion 412 ; nature's ab 548; elements not moved by them horrence of a vacuum 413; deduction selves but by something external to of the opposition of matter and form themselves 673-674; Intelligences 591 ;corporeal form 582- 585 ; spheres not moved accidentally 608; rela composed of matter and form 103, tion of the Intelligences to the 261, 594, 597; possibility and neces spheres 606; spheres possess no soul sity 110, 111, 561, 680-682; the in addition to the Intelligences 607; Intelligences are related to each what sort of accidental motion can other as causes and effects 666-66 7; not be eternal 553 ; impenetrability immortality of the soul 667; God of bodies 415 ; deduction of the not identified with 'prime mover' opposition of ma tter and form 571; 110. See also Index of Passages. corporeal form 585- 587 ; spheres not Azriel 459, 460. composed of matter and form 103, 261, 594-597; version of Aristotle's B definition of time 636, 638; the Bacher, W., 458, 465. Intelligences not related to each Bacon, Francis, 347. other as causes and effects 66 7; Bacon, Roger, 126, 347. immortality of the soul 487, 667; Babya ben Asher 460. relation of the hylic and acquired Babya Ibn Pakuda- impossibility of intellect to the body 608; possibility an infinite number of causes and and necessity 111,561, 680; meaning effects 492 ; spheres com posed of of necessary existence 111, 681 ; two matter and form 598. See also meanings of the term possible 697; Index of Passages and Pseudo magnetic attraction 566; God identi Babya. fied with 'prime mover' 608; See Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire, ]., 352. also Index of Passages. Bedersi, Jedaiah, 2. Avicebron-see Ibn Gabirol. Below- see Above. Avicenna-and Maimonides 323; first Ben Daud- see Abraham Ibn Daud. and foremost among Moslem phi- Benvenisti ibn Labi, Don., 12, n . 49.
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Bergh, S. van den, 482, 589. 66-67, 494. See also under Infinite Bergson, H., 97. and under Motion. Bibago-see Abraham Bibago. Causeless-identified by Avicenna Body-definition of 541, 590; cannot with necessary per se 110-111. be infinite 151-157, 347-365; im Centre--special meaning of term when penetrability of bodies 187, 415- applied to earth 432, 451-454. 416; meaning of 'simple bodies' 337; Change--see Motion. everything movable and divisible Chrysippus 639. is a body 241 ; a body moving Circular motion - see Motion and another body is moved itself 255; Infinite. how accidents and natural form are Cold-see Hot. said to exist in body 25 7; certain Conic Sections, Book on, 207, 465. things existing in body are divisible Contiguous-defined by Aristotle 376. with the body 263; one of the Continu~us-the two meanings of the continuous quantities 419. term 275, 617. See also Quantity. Bonaventura (St.), J. F., 654. Contraposition, conversion by, 541. Brethren of Purity-see IQ.wanal-Safa. Conversion of the obverse 241, 305, Broyde, I., 11, 461, 500. 541. Bruno, Giordano,-similarities with Copernican 118. Crescas 35-36, 118; air has weight Creation-whycreationdoesnotimply 414; actioi:l of infinite in finite time a change in the nature of God 30.3 , 466 ; infinite has neither middle nor 679-680. end 472; infinite neither heavy nor Crescas, Asher, 680. light 431; infinite is immovable 464; Crescas, .I;Iasdai,-see Preface and distinction between a force infinite contents of the Introduction at in extension and a force infinite in the beginning of the volume. intensity 613; infinite is figureless 470; universe not finite 115; outside D the world there is a vacuum 422; Dapiera, Solomon ben Immanuel, 459, Aristotle's definition of place does 501. not apply to outermost sphere 443; Davidson, I., 567. many worlds 476; distinction be Definition-what it must contain 523, tween 'mixture' and 'inexistence' 575, 660-661; convertible with the 560. See also Index of Passages. definiendum 233, 526. Delmedigo, Elijah, 589. c Democritus 411-412, 463. See also Atomists. Care and pleasure 247. Demonstration-see Proof. Carra de Vaux, B., 347, 483, 485, 486, Dense--see Rare. 489, 535. Descartes 97, 626, 654. Carrying 562. Desire 547. Caspi, Joseph, 323. Dialectic argument 326. Category-see Substance, Quantity, Didactic argument 326. Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Diels, H., 356, 357,401, 415, 445, 472, Position, Action, Passion, and also 526, 548, 581, 582, 635, 646. under Motion. Dieterici, F., 418, 421, 580, 635, 662. Cause--essential and accidental 54, Dimension 591.
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Diminution-see Growth. Ether-in Aristotle 119; in modern Discrete-see Quantity. physics as compared with Crescas' Disposition-meaning of 688, 690. vacuum 117. Distance 591. Euclid-see Index of Passages and Divisibility--does not always imply also Pseudo-Euclid. composition 62-63, 393 If.; divisibil Eudemus 635. ity and changeability 80-81, 241 If. Even and odd-see Number. Division-logical 332. Extension - Hebrew, Arabic and Dozy, R.P.A., 421. Greek terms for 591; and matter Drawing 562. 120; attribute of extension 122-123; Dry and moist-as qualities 688. possibility of an infinite incorporeal Duhem, P., 123, 586. extension 62-63, 116-117. Duns Scotus, J., 97, 654. Extremity 344. Duran, Profiat,-see Efodi. Duratiqn 654-658. See also Time. F Faculties-in the sense of 'internal E senses' 667. Earth-moves absolutely downward Falaquera, Shem-tob ben Joseph 141, 161, 337, 412; is absolutely Moreh ha-Moreh may have been heavy 239, 412; spherical and at used by Crescas 22; definitions of rest 451; called 'centre' 451, 454; motion 525; on the nature of the what is the proper place of element motion of the spheres 537; eternal earth 445-446, 456. motion of the spheres and time 646; Edelmann, H., 586. spheres not composed of matter and Efodi - natural elements move by form 595-596; change of substance themselves 675. in no-time 503. See also Index of Efros, I. 1., 365, 471. Passages. Elements--called 'simple bodies' 348; Falsehood-possible and impossible their upward and downward motion 149, 343; fictitious falsehood 195, 141, 161, 337, 412; their weight and 199, 343. lightness 239, 412; their proper Farabi-see Alfarabi. places 445-446; their relations to Fear-see Pleasure. each other 450; whether or not they Figure-included under quality 307, are moved by themselves 88-89, 686-688; Hebrew and Arabic terms 670-673. for it 687; definition of 173, 307, Elijah Delmedigo 589. 388; no body without it 307; divisi Elijah I;Iabillo 589. bility of the geometric figure of a Empedc:icles 321. body 603; figure of a syllogism Energy 526. called 'force' 342. Entelechy-meaning of 526; 'first Fire-moves absolutely upward 141, entelechy' 525. 161, 337, 412, 450; has no weight Equal and unequal-not applicable to 239, 412; not similar to the element an infinite 423. below it 450; transformable into Eristic argument 396. air 450. Essential order 481. First Mover-proof for its immova Eternal time 423 If. bility 553-554; whether to be iden Eternity-identical with God 662. tified with God 462; not identified
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with God by Avicenna 110; not with respect to substance 229; not identified with God by Maimonides called motion 498 ff.; in no-time 106, 606; identified with God by 229, 503; there must be an instant Averroes 608; is a substance 575- of rest between them 2 7 7, 619 ; 576. there need not be an instant of rest Flensberg, I:I. J., 523, 611. between them 281,626-627; relative Force-the term as used by Mai and absolute 283, 514, 519, 628, monides 99, 259, 577; as the figure 631 ; are they preceded by locomo of a syllogism 342; infinite force in a tion and qualitative change? 281 , finite body 105, 267 ff.; distinction 628; when generation is prior to all between a force infinite in time and other motions 283, 632. a force infinite in intensity 106, 273, Genus- motion one in genus 615. 612-614. Gershon ben Solomon of Aries-why Form-accidental, corporeal, elemen air descends into a ditch 413; tal, essential, first, natural, of cor magnetic attraction 566, 567. See poreity, proper, specific 578; the also Index of Passages. two usages of the term form 573- Gersonides - his commentaries on 574; why form is a substance 103, Averroes used by Crescas 9-10, 365, 104, 259, 573-576, 601-602; called 369, 370, 373; why infinite body accident by Kalam 570, 601-602; must be infinite in all dimensions called 'force' by Maimonides 99, 430; divisibility of number into 257, 259, 577; constitutes existence even and odd 4 77; infinite number of body 257 ff.; not identical with of concentric spheres 462; infinite place 155, 357; in what sense called number of causes 496; the place of limit 155, 358-359; cause of motion the spheres and the universe 440, of elements 89, 299, 6 72-6 73 ; change outside the universe there is 'noth of form is in no-time 243, 544; ing' 115, 421; eternal time 424; corporeal form: its origin, history many worlds 472, 475; definition and meaning 100-101, 579-590; of motion 528-529; original time of corporeal form and Ibn Gabirol's motion 406-408; why air descends universal matter 598-601; indivisi into a ditch 412-413; magnetic bility of corporeal form 104-105, attraction 566; the term centre as 265, 602. applied to the earth 454; time 652- Forms, Platonic, 665. 653; version of Aristotle's definition Frederick II, Emperor, 34. of time 638; active intellect 54 7; Friedlaender, I., 465. definition of continuous quantity Friedlander, M., 2. 418; impenetrability of bodies 415; Fundamentals 319. centre of the earth only a point 455. See also Index of Passages. G Ghazali-see Algazali. Galen 526, 567. Ginzberg, L., 319, 458, 535. Galileo 127. "Glory of the Lord"-history of the Gandz, S., 420. interpretation of the expression of General argument (or proof) 328, 201, 459-462. 390, 462, 542. God-proofs for existence, unity and General place 458. incorporeality of 323-324; immova Geqerqtion and corruption-chan~~;e ble, unchan~eable and indivisible;
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247, 550; whether identified with Hermes 321. the 'prime mover' 106, 110, 461- Hillel ben Samuel of Verona-his 462, 606, 608; positive attributes of commentary on the twenty-five 13-14; attributes of extension and propositions 1, 2; may have been thought of 122-123; possibility of used by Crescas 22; motion and two deities 14; as the place of the change not convertible terms 522; world 123, 201; relation to the categories of motion 501 ; locomo world in Aristotle, Crescas and tion of quantitative motion imper Spinoza 122-123; why creation does ceptible 521; what kind of accidental not imply change in 303, 679-680. motion cannot be eternal 551ff.; Goldenthal,].. 397. substance has no definition 575; Goldziher, I., 461, 500. description of substance 57 5; Gracian-See Zera}:liah ben Isaac. whether substance of spheres is Graetz, H ., 17, n. 62. composed of matter and form 598; "Grain of umstard seed" and "grain time 641; possibility and poten of millet" 342-343. tiality 692; two senses of the term Gravity and levity-see Weight and potential 697. See also Index of lightness. Passages. Great and small-terms applicable to Hirschfeld, H., 459, 501. continuous quantity 139, 189, 339, Homogeneity in nature 118-120. 418; inapplicable to an infinite 423. Horovitz, S., 355, 376. Great Captain-reference to trip to Horten, M., 482, 485, 486, '489, 494, Naples and meeting Leo Hebraeus 495 , 583, 589, 597, 687. 600. Hot and cold-as qualities 688. Grote, G., 326, 336. Husik, I., 11, 355. Growth and diminution-change with respect to quantity 229; Hebrew and Arabic terms for 399; involves Ibn Aknin. See Joseph Ibn Aknin. locomotion 231, 521. See also Ibn Alsaig- see Avempace. Motion. Guttmann, Jakob, 365, 420, 639. Ibn Baddja-see Avempace. Guttmann, Julius, 36, n. 113,347,626. Ibn Bajja-see Avempace. Ibn Gabirol, Solomon,-paraphrase H of Aristotle's definition of place 364; Haarbriicker, Th., 337. term for 'proper place' 356; action l:labillo, Elijah, 589. of the animal soul is in time 549; Ha-Levi, Judah,- see Judah ha-Levi. acquisition of knowledge by the Hamilton, W., 541. rational soul is in no-time 548; Hard and soft-included under qual- seven kinds of quantity 420 ; rela ity 688; called primary qualities 688. tivity of the terms matter and form Harkavy, A. A., 461. 579; his universal matter and Cres Harris, J. Rende!, 460. cas' corporeal form 598, 599, 600, Heath, T.L., 465, 623. 601. See also Index of Passages. Heaven-see Spheres. Ibn Jana}:l 335, 563. Heavy and light- see Weight. Ibn Latif, lsaac,-his argument for Heiberg, I, L., 455. and against a vacuum explained I;Ien-see Zerabia ben Isaac. 471; motion of the spheres natural
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and not voluntary 538; ideality of theMoreh 21; only a few propositions time 662. See also Index of Passages. quoted by Crescas from his transla Ibn Roshd-see Averroes. tion of the Moreh 23; Maimonides' Ibn Shem-tob-the literary activity letter to him unknown to Crescas of the familty 31. 22. See also Index of Passages. Ibn Shem-tob, Isaac ben Shem-tob, Ibn Tufail 584. his works 31, n. 90; his criticism of Ibn Zaddi~-see Joseph Ibn Zaddi~. Crescas 31-32; no quantity can be Il;twan ai-Safa-version of Aristotle's incorporeal 395, 396; divisibility of definition of place 362; place and number into odd and even 479; vacuum 417-418; enumeration of infinite must be infinite in all discrete and continuous quantities dimensions 431; why 'principles' 421; sixfold classification of mo must be known 428; meaning of tion 500; enumeration of various statement that vacuum is cause of views on time 635; the definition of motion 398; body must be bounded time as duration 655. See also by surfaces 425; the place of the Index of Passages. spheres and the universe 440; why Imagination 211, 466, 546-547. 'rest' is not included in the defini Immediate mover 699. tion of time 650. See also Index of Immobility-distinguished from rest Passages. 646-649. Ibn Shem-tob, Joseph ben Shem-tob Impenetrability of flodies 187, 414- -on Crescas' unacquaintance with 416. the Tahafut 16-17; suggests that Impossible falsehood-see Falsehood. Or Adonai was written after the lnaliety 577. Bittul'I~~ere ha-No:!!erim 16; on the Incorporeal beings-how numbered obscurity of Crescas' style 29. 108-109, 293f., 666-667. Ibn Shem-tob, Shem-tob,--opponent Increase--see Growth. of philosophy 31. Induction 281, 628. Ibn Shem-tob, Shem-tob ben Joseph Inexistence--distinguished from 'ad- ben Shem-tob,- his criticism of mixture' 251, 265, 560. Crescas 32-33; why number and Infinite--general analysis of argu magnitude are inseparable from ments against infinity 39, n. 2. body 394; why 'principles' must be (1) impossibility of an incorporeal known 427; defends Aristotle's re infinite magnitude 137, 329-335; jection of the identification of place Crescas' refutation 62-63, 179, with interval 441; whether spheres 391-396; Altabrizi's atgument 149, are composed of matter and form 345- 347; Crescas' refutation 63- 64, 598; on the changeability and indi 191, 423- 424. visibility of the intellect 549; Mai (2) impossibility of a corporeal in monides' view on the hylic intellect finite magnitude 151-157, 347-365; 607; whether the form of the ele Crescas' refutation 41-43, 191-203, ments is the cause of their motion 424-462. 673, 675; referred to by Abravanel (3) impossibility of rectlinear mo on corporeal form 589. See also tion in an infinite body 49-50, 157- Index of Passages. 169, 365- 379; Crescas' refutation Ibn Tibbon, Judah, 327. 50- 51, 203-205, 462-464. Ibn Tibbon, Samuel, his translation of (4) impossibility of circular motion
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in an infinite body 51, 169-175, of instants 277; common limit of 379-390; Crescas' refutation 51-53, past and future 624; infinite to 205-213, 464-470. finite like point to line and like (5) general arguments against an instant to time 163; no motion in infinite magnitude 175-177, 390; an instant 163, 269, 271; there Crescas' refutation 215, 471. must be an instant of rest between (6) impossibility of an infinite num opposite motions 275, 277, 618-622; ber of magnitudes 65,219, 476-477; there need not be an instant of Crescas' refutation 219-221, 477- rest between opposite motions 281, 479; the two kinds of infinite 623ff. number64-65, 221,480-481 ;infinite Intellect-general sense of the term number of disembodied souls 15-16, 604; hylic 606-607; acquired 486, 67-68, 223, 484-490, 493. 495, 607; active 546, 547; active (7) impossibility of an infinite num intellect is a substance 575-576. ber of causes and effects 65-66, 223, Intelligences-whether causally re 482-484; Crescas' refutation 66-69, lated to each other 108-109, 293- 227, 490; Narboni's argument 227, 295, 666-667; how they are num 491-493; Crescas' refutation 66-67, bered ibid.; analogy of their relation 227-229, 493-496; Crescas' theory to the spheres to the relation of of the possibility of an infinite intellect to body 605ff.; called final number of effects 67-69, 229, 496- cause of motion of spheres 605-606; 497. called soul of the spheres 265-267, (8) impossibility of an infinite force 607; whether they are moved acci in a finite body 105-106, 267ff.; dentally while moving 606, 608; are Crescas' refutation 271ff.; distinc not in time 287; are in time 291; are tion between r\ force infinite in time substances 575-576. and a force infinite in intensity 106, Ionian School 569, 570. 273, 612-613. Isaac Abravanel-see Abravanel. (9) the unknowability of the infinite Isaac Arama-see Arama. 193,426-428,492; how an incorpore Isaac Israeli-sixfold classification of al infinite extension can be divisible motion 500; why form is substance and yet not be composite 62--63, 574. See also Index of Passages. 391-396; meaning of the statement Isaac Ibn Latif-see Ibn Latif. that no infinite can be greater than Isaac ben Nathan-his translation another infinite 63-64, 191, 423- of Altabrizi used by Crescas 21; his 424; indivisibility of infinite num style 21; what kind of accidental ber into odd and even 221, 223, 478, motion cannot be eternal 551, 552; 488; possibility of an infinite number quoted by Narboni 552. See also of concentric spheres and proper places 50-51, 159, 203, 370-373 Index of Passages under Altabrizi. 463; infinite essential causes and Isaac ben Shem-tob - see Ibn accidental causes 494ff.; infinite Shem-tob, Isaac. causes 'in a straight line' and 'ac Israeli-see Isaac Israeli. cording to kind' 495; infinite divisi bility and addibility 464. J Instant-not time 285; the present is Jedaiah Bedersi 2. an instant 285; time not composed Joachim, H. H., 513.
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Joel, M., 11, 34, n. 102, 36, n. 113, L 123, 321, 322, 335, 561. Lambert, M., 420, 461. Joseph ben Judah Ibn Aknin-deduc Landauer, S., 339,378,396,472,492, tion of the opposition of matter and 597. form 592; corporeal form 585, 586, Leibnitz, G. W., 123, n. 27. 587. Leo Hebraeus-follows Crescas' view Joseph Albo-see Albo. on prime matter 600; meeting with Joseph Caspi 323. King of Spain and Great Captain Joseph Zabara-magnetic attraction 600. 567. Levias, C., 401. Joseph Ibn Zaddi~-why the earth is Lightness-see Weight. stationary and called centre 452; Limit-the different Greek words un the proper place of element earth derlying the Hebrew and Arabic 446, 456; corporeal form 588. See words for it 358-359; as applied to also Index of Passages. form 155, 357, 358-359; as applied Joseph, H. W. B., 335. to place 362, 364. Joy 547. Line-definitions of 392-393; not com Judah Abravanel-see Leo Hebraeus. posed of points 277; indivisible with Judah al-l:{arizi 21, 324, 689. respect to width 265, 602; infinitely Judah Ha-Levi-infinite number of divisible 392; one of the continuous causes and effects 492; implied quantities 419. Aristotelian definition of place 363; Locke, ].. 326, 654. the place of the outermost sphere Lowy, M., .336, 401, 587, 590, 592. 441; motion of the spheres is natural Logical argument (or proof) 328, 390. motion 538; acquisition of knowl Lucretius-magnetic attraction 563. edge is in no-time 548; meaning of the expression the "Glory of the M Lord" 461. See also Index of Passages. Magnes, J. L., 581, 590, 592. Judah Messer Leon 506. Magnet-Hebrew terms for 562-563; Judah ben Simeon 663. different theories of magnetic at traction 90-92, 255, 257, 563-564, K 565-568; significance of Crescas' theory of magnetic attraction 121. Kalam-its atomistic theory 120; form Magnitude---{)ne of the continuous only an accident 574, 601. quantities 341, 419, 541; infinitely Kalonymus ben David ben Todros divisible 464, 541; but not infinitely 12, n. 50. addible 464; small and great but Kalonymus b ,~n Kalonymus 9. not much and few 337; measurable Kaspi, Joseph, 323. but not numerable 337, 419; term Kaufmann, D., 11, 365, 667. used by Crescas to include line, Kiml;ii, David, 459. See also Index of surface, body and place 419. Passages. Maimonides - and Averroes 323; Kindi-See Alkindi. classification of philosophers 321 ; Knowledge---{)riginates in sense per distinction between 'authors' and ception 546; acquisition of it is in 'commentators' 322; Morek written no-time 247, 547-548, with great care 27-28; the twenty-
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tion between change in time and in the categories of motion 70- 71, no-time or gradual and sudden 229-233, 498-503; whether there is change 71, 229, 232, 498, 503-504, motion in all the ten categories 504 ; 543-544, 616; but Alexander -and why not in all the categories 73-4; Maimonides: every change is in in the categories of action and time 243, 502, 543; generation and passion 231, 233, 506; in the cate destruction of forms is in no-time gory of passion 513, 517; in the 243, 503-504, 544; generation and category of relation 506; in the corruption in substance is in no category of position 231, 439, 502, time 503; terminations of the pro 504-506; the four categories of mo cesses of change and motion are in tion 2 29; locomotion is called motion no-time 243; activity of the intellect proper 229,231, change in substance in acquiring knowledge is in no-time is consequent upon all the other 247, 547-548; motion in no-time is motions 231, 520; whether motion impossible 145, 147; no motion in of growth involves locomotion 74, an instant 163, 269,271; the motions 231, 520-521; the order of priority of pleasure and pain are in time 24 7, of the four categories of motion 548-549; change in quality is in 87-88, 281-283, 627-628, 632; ex time 243, 504; change in quality is planations of upward motion 78- 79, in no-time 205; change in quality 141, 185, 239, 410-412; opposite takes place all at once 464; change motions cannot be continuous 83-84, in quality may be sudden 464; 273-279, 615ff.; opposite motions locomotion is gradual 464; the ne can be continuous 84-87, 279-281, cessity of a medium for motion 185, 623ff.; circular motion is motion in 403ff., 463; the impossibility of position 403, 439, 505-506; circular motion in a vacuum 141ff.; possi motion does not require spherical bility of motion in a vacuum 183, body 213, 470; continuity and eter 402; the 'sustaining subject' and nity of circular motion 86-87, 273, the 'material subject' of motion 279, 281£., 623, 630; whether the 72-74, 231, 233, 507-520; the def circular motion of the spheres is initions ol motion 75 , 233, 235, natural or voluntary 15, 77-78, 106- 511, 523-530; the continuity of 107, 118, 119-120, 237, 273,535- motion 341, 273ff., 615ff. ; the five 538; motion requires a cause 88, 297, things involved in motion 511ff.; 668ff.; final and efficient cause of no absolute beginning of motion motion 90, 253, 561£.; four ways of 46 7; motion named after terminus producingmotion562 ;efficient cause ad quem 518; how motion is called is moved while moving 90, 253; one 82-83, 273, 615-616; the cause of motion either external or classification of motion into na internal 88, 297, 678; soul cause of tural, violent, essential, accidental motion in animals 297, 669; what and participative 76-77, 79-80, the cause of the natural motion of 235-239, 531-540; to be moved the elements is 88-89, 141, 297- essentially or accidentally with the 299, 337-338, 670-675 ; theory of an whole 443; no accidental or vi original time of motion 57, 183- 185, olent motion can be eternal 81, 205, 271, 403-410; cause of the 249, 551-'555; qualifications of this difference of speed of motion 143, proposition 82, 249-253, 555-561; 340.
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Much and few-applied to continuous Necessary per se 110-111, 662. quantity 418; inapplicable to an Neumark, D., 319. infinite 423 . Newton, Sir Isaac, 126. Muller, M . J., 364, 422. Nissim ben Reuben 539. Multitude - opposed to magnitude Nothing 115. 419. Number--one of the discrete quanti Munk, S., 352,480, 553, 562,571, 577, ties 419£.; infinitely addible but not 680, 687' 700. infinitely divisible 464; divisible into odd and even 219, 477; whether N infinite number is divisible into odd Narboni, Moses,-his works used by and even 221, 478£. ; distinguished Crescas 11, 21-22; why infinite from measure 289, 419, 660; the magnitude must be infinite in all sense in which it is used in the dimensions 429; incorporeal infinite definition of time 289, 637, 658-660. surface 424; divisibility of infinite number into odd and even 478-479; 0 infinite number of causes and effects Occam, William of, 97, 654. 492; version of Aristotle's definition Odd and even- see Number. of place 362; on Algazali's and Odor-see Taste. Aristotle's definitions of place 363; Oral transmission of Jewish philosophy the place of the spheres and of the to Christians 34-35. universe 437; vacuum 400, 401; Order in nature 221, 225, 481. impenetrability of bodies 416; why Order in position 221, 225, 481. 'principles' must be known 426; Original time of motion-see Avem- definitions of motion 510, 511; the pace and Motion. two subjects of motion 507-510, 697; motion and change not inter p changeable 522; change in thecate Pain- see Pleasure. gory of passion 513, 517; accidental Palquera-see Falaquera. and participative motion 534; defi Particular proof 462, 549. nition of nature 672; change in Passion, category of,-see Action and substance is in no-time 503; what Motion. accidental motion cannot be eternal Perseity 577. 551, 559; the causes of motion 561; Persuasive argument 397. corporeal form 583f., 585, 586, 589; Petitio principii 335- 336. versions of Aristotle's definition of Philo-meaning of t h e expression time 636, 637; possibility 683; two "Glory of the Lord" 460; God as senses of the term possible 697; the place of the world 123. Maimonides' view on the hylic intel Phinehas ben Meshullam 322. lect 606; Platonic Ideas 665. See Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Fran also Index of Passages. cesco,-his references to Crescas 34. Natural order 481. See also Index of Passages. Nature--cause of the motion of the Pilpul, the logic of Talmudic, 24-29. elements 299, 672-673; called a Pinsker, S., 420. form 299; Hebrew versions of Aris Place--one of the continuous quanti totle's definition of 672. ties 419; Aristotle's discussion of Necessary-see Possibility. place 44-45, 153-157, 354-365; va-
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rious Arabic and Hebrew versions Plutarch-place 363; vacuum 400, of Aristotle's definition of place 157, 417, weight and lightness 411; body 362-365; Crescas' refutation of Aris 588; time 639. See also Index of totle's definition of place 46-48, Passages. 195-203, 431-462; different inter Point-indivisible 265 , 602; motion of pretations of Aristotle's conception a point 239, 538-539, 546. See as to the place of the spheres and also Line. the universe 45-47, 115, 195, 432- Porphyry 321. 441; Crescas' identification of place Position-definition of 307, 689-690; with vacuum 195, 441-443; Crescas' as na inseparable accident 307; as a definition of place 48-49, 199, 458; separable accident 690; 'relation in particular and general place 352; position' 689; 'a certain position of place and space 116, 352; 'first,' parts' 688; motion in the category 'proper' and 'common' place 356, of position 231, 439, 502, 504- 506, 458; the proper places of the four 535. elements 45, 445-446, 602; the prop Possibility and necessity-Aristotle's er place of earth 445-446; proper view 109-110, 681; Avicenna's view place as a final cause of the motion 110-111, 303, 305, 680-685; Aver· of the elements 338; possibility of roes' view 111, 680-681; may be ap an infinite number of proper places plied to an existent or to a non 50-51, 373, 462; Crescas' denial of existent subject 113, 313, 697- 698; proper places 79, 456; the argument the accidental is only possible 82, from place against an infinite mag 249, 551; the possible cannot be nitude 43-44; the definition of place conceived as not becoming realized used as an argument against an in infinite time 82, 249, 551. infinite magnitude 43-44, 354-355; Potentiality-distinguished from pos the expression that God is the sibility 112, 690-693; the potential place of the world 201, 123-124. as non-existent 113, 309-313, 690ff.; Plato--infinity 330, 395; place 356, the potential as material 113, 313, 357; weight and upward motion 696ff.; passing from potentiality to 411-412; denial of
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of motion 500; meaning of expres Roots 131, 319. sion "Glory of the Lord" 461. Ross, W. D., 328, 578. Pseudo-Euclid's workon Weightand Rough and smooth-as corporeal af Lightness 457. fections 687-688; as qualities 688; Ptolemaic 118. as primary qualities 688; as 'a Pushing 562. certain position of parts' 688. Pythagoras and Pythagoreans-their philosophy called antiquated by s Maimonides 321; infinite 330, 395, Saadia-infinite cannot be known 492; 400-401, 403; vacuum 54,344,400, impossibility of an infinite number 414; time 635. of causes 492 ; definition of place 364-365; sixfold division of motion Q 500; motion of the spheres is natural Quality-list of qualities 687- 688; motion 538; time 638-639, 640, 'qualities of the soul' 548; change 655-656; sevenfold division of quan in the category of quality, see tity 420; impossibility of many Motion and Alteration. worlds 472; meaning of the expres Quantity - continuous and discrete sion "Glory of the Lord" 461. See 289, 419; definition of continuous also Index of Passages. quantity 418-419; enumeration of Samuel ha-Nagid 491. quantities 189, 419-421; divided Samuel Ibn Tibbon-see Ibn Tibbon. into magnitudes and multitudes419, Saul ha-Kohen Ashkenazi 589. 337; an inseparable accident 307; Schenk!, H., 437, 544. in the sense of corporeal form 578; Schwegler, A., 328. change in the category of quantity, Scriptural Beliefs 131, 319. see Motion and Growth. Sefirot 459ff. Quantum-in-general 633. Sense-perception 546. Qu1r6s Rodrfguez, C., 482, 589. Senses 667. Quod erat demonstrandum 339. Shahrastani-classification of Greek philosophers 321; infinite magnitude R 34 7; infinite number of disembodied Rare and dense-as qualities 688; as souls 486; categories of motion 507; corporeal affections 687-688; as 'a no motion in the category of sub certain position of parts' 688; as stance 502; motion in position 505; primary qualities 688. change in substance is in no-time Rabinowitz, S. P., 461. 503; deduction of the opposition of Rawidowitz, S., 465. matter and form 591 ; corporeal Reason 125. form 583. See also Index of Rehman, M . J., 422. Passages. Relation-definition of 689-690; 're- Shalom, Abraham, - see Abraham lation in position' 689; change in Shalom. the category of relation, see Motion. Shebil ha-Emunah 538. Rest-distinguished from immobility Simple bodies 348. 646-649; how it measures time 287- Simplicius-see Index of Passages. 289, 646-051. Small and great- applied to contin- Rhetorical argument 397. uous quantity 138, 181, 337, 418. Rolling 562. Smooth-see Rough.
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Sophists 321. Subject--distinguished from 'abode' Soul-general sense of the term 604; 577; the 'sustaining' and the 'mate as a substance 575-576; indivisible rial' subject of motion 72-74, 231, 247, 549; immortality of the soul 233, 507-520. 295, 488, 667; 'souls and intellects' Substance-has no true definition 57 5 ; 323, 486, 604-605, 668; 'motions' its characteristics 102-103,574-576, and 'qualities' of the soul 548; 640, 662; classification and enumer infinite number of disembodied souls ation of substances 572-576; 'indi 15-16, 67--68, 109, 223, 484--490, vidual,' 'universal,' 'primary,' 'sec 493; cause of motion in animals 297, ondary' 699, 667; motion in the 669; efficient cause of the motion category of substance 70, 229, 231, of the spheres 605--606; relation of 503, 520; whether substance of the the soul of the sphere to the sphere spheres is composed of matter and 251 ; the soul of the sphere has form, see Spheres. accidental motion 251; sphere has Substratum-see Subject. no soul 607; Intelligences called Surface-one of the continuous quan souls of the spheres 265-267, 607; tities 419; not composed of lines relation of soul to body 251, 560; 277; how divisible 265, 602; intro time exists in the soul 289, 661-662, duced into Aristotle's definition of 98. place 362, 364. Space-see Place. Syllable-discrete quantity 421. Spain, King of,-reference to trip to Naples and meeting Leo Hebraeus T 600. Tabrizi-see Altabrizi. Speech--discrete quantity 419, 421. Taste and odor 688. Spheres, celestial,-whethercomposed Taylor, Th., 356, 357, 415, 445, 455, of matter and form 103-104, 119, 472, 526, 548, 581, 635, 646. 261, 594-598; the nature of the Text - (1) conjectural emendations circular motion of the spheres 15, adopted 158 (374, n. 104); 160 (375, 77-78, 106-107, 118, 119- 120, 237, n. 106); 172 (387, n. 143); 194 (431, 273, 535-538; soul and Intelligences n. 50) ; 210 (466, n. 113); 210 (467, of the spheres 265-267, 605-612; n. 114); 212 (470, n. 121); 266 the place of the spheres 45--47, 115, (611, n. 6). (2) conjectural emen 195-199, 432--441; 'parts of the dations suggested 469, n. 120; 564, spheres' 251, 256; not subject to n. 8. (3) variant readings discussed corruption 614; devoid of qualities 37~ n. 122; 423, n. 37;44~ n. 65; 273, 614; not heavy or light 195, 522- 523, n. 4; 568, n. 11; 696, n. 3; 614. See also Motion, Intelligences, 697- 698, n. 5. Soul. Themistius - cited by Crescas 5; Spinoza, B., 36-37, 97, 120, 377, 394, known to Crescas through Averroes 423, 466, 654. 9; placed before Alexander by Shah Steinschneider, M., 2, n. 3; 10, n. 44; rastani and Crescas 321; placed 12, n. 4~ n. 50; 19; 19,n.66;457; after Alexander by Maimonides 526; 601. 322; classification of arguments into Stoics 356. demonstrative, eristic and rhetorical Straton Lampsacenus 471. 396; infinite causes and effects 492; Suarez, Fr., 97, 654. the place of the spheres and the
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universe 45, 46, 433, 437, 443, 449; True Opinions 319. the spheres not composed of matter Truth-Aristotle's definition of 324, and form 595, 596, 597; some 456-457. changes are in no-time 243, 543, Tufail-see Ibn Tufail. 544; immortality of the soul 667. See also Index of Passages. u Theophrastus 542, 635. Unity of God 14, 324. Thomas Aquinas 578. Universal matter 599, 600, 601. Tim~ne of the continuous quanti Universals 107-108, 664-666. ties 341, 419, 660; not composed of Universe-finite or infinite 115-118; instants 277; classification of pre whether homogeneous and continu Aristotelian theories of time in ous or not 118-120. Arabic and Jewish philosophy 634- 636; Aristotle's arguments for his v definition of time 94-95, 285, 640- Vacuum-different theories of 54, 343- 644; vatious versions of Aristotle's 344, 400; arguments against the definition of time in Arabic and existence of a vacuum 139ff., 337- Jewish philosophy 636-640; impli 345, 471; Crescas' refutation 54- 60, cations of Aristotle's definition of 181-189, 398-422; arguments for time 95- 96, 287; Crescas' criticism the existence of a vacuum 181, 398, of Aristotle's definition 287-291, 60- 62, 189, 417-422, 471; nature's 646ff.; analysis of Plotinus' defini abhorrence of a vacuum 115, 413; tion of time and its traces in Arabic identification of vacuum with place and Jewish philosophy 96-97, 654- 356-357, 417, 441; significance of 658; Crescas' definition of time Crescas' infinite vacuum 116-117; 97- 98, 289, 651-658; implications Crescas' infinite vacuum and uni of Crescas' definition 98, 289-29 1; versal ether 117. comparison of time to flowing water Versor, Joannes, 626, 660. 641 ; meaning of 'to be in time' 287, Vision- impossible in a vacuum 471. 644-646; the use of 'number' and Void- see Vacuum. 'measure' in Aristotle's definition of time 93, 289, 637, 658-660; time is w the measure of motion and is Water-has relative motion upward measured by motion 646- 64 7, 655; 141, 161, 337, 412; is relatively whether time is also the measure of heavy and light 239, 412 ; its rela rest 93,287, 647-651; whether time tion to fire 450. is real or ideal 96, 98, 289, 661- 662; Waxman, M., 36, n. 113. eternal and immovable beings not Weight and lightness- theories of in time 96, 98, 287, 645-646, 662; 58-59, 78-79, 337-338, 410-411; of whether time existed prior to crea the elements 239, 412; absolute and tion 96, 98, 291, 663-664; time the relative 239; the spheres are neither image of eternity 662; why Altabrizi heavy nor light 195, 614; denial of described time as having necessary absolute lightness 59, 78-79, 126, existence 662; theory of original 185, 239,411, 539; called 'affections' time of motion 57, 183- 185, 205, 688; called 'corporeal affections' 271, 403-410. 687-688; called 'qualities' 688. Tradition 125, 319-320. Wolfsohn, Julius, 12ff.
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Wolfson, H. A., 14; 31, n. 90; 37, n. z i15; 97 ; 687. Zabara, Joseph,-magnetic attraction World-its threefold division 201, 459; 567. Aristotle and Crescas on the possi Zeller, E., 320, 356, 411, 412,506, 507, bility of many worlds 117-118, 217, 526, 563, 686. 472-476; creation or eternity of the world 96, 98, 191,211, 283,424,632, Zeno 639, 344. 664, 679 ; future destructibility of Zeral;tiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel the world 424. Gracian (I;Ien) 2, 9, 396, 399. Zera):J.ia ha-Levy ben Isaac Saladin y 12, n. 49; 18. Yellin, D., 491.
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