Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption raises a vital question: how is mixture, or what we would now call chemical combination, possible. It also offers an outline of a solution to the problem and a set of criteria that a successful solution must meet. Understanding Aristotle’s solution and developing a viable peripatetic theory of chemical combination has been a source of controversy over th...

condensation (contraction) and rarefaction (expansion)are two terms in natural philosophy (physics) used inseveral different meanings. in this article the meanings ofthe two terms and their real and artificial kinds areintroduced and their differences with some terms such asgrowth, tumor, and, also, their opposite ones areexpressed. we have also evaluated the philosophical andexperimental argum...

Aristotle’s On generation and corruption raises a vital question: how is mixture, or what we would now call chemical combination, possible? It also offers an outline of a solution to the problem and a set of criteria that a successful solution must meet. Understanding Aristotle’s solution and developing a viable peripatetic theory of chemical combination has been a source of controversy over th...

the possibility and character of comparative philosophy are nowadays important questions. phenomenological approach is one of the main approaches concerning comparative philosophy. henry corbin is also one of the founders of this discipline, who though many efforts, concluding his critiques to historicism, lacks in some components, as many of his followers do. current essay, reading heidegger&a...

Many nosocomial outbreaks exhibit "superspreading events" in which cross-transmission occurs via a single individual to a large number of patients. We investigated how heterogeneity in Health-Care Worker (HCW) behaviors, especially compliance to hand hygiene, may cause superspreading events. In particular, we compared the superspreading potential of peripatetic (noncohorted) HCWs with that of o...

in al-ta‘liqat–which is most likely a collection of avicenna’s lectures– it is intended to answer to a paradox concerning the knowledge of the substance. this paradox can be reconstructed this way: if, by knowing something, its quiddity comes to mind, then with knowing a substance its quiddity–which is a substance–comes to mind. conversely, according to peripatetic philosophy, knowledge is a qu...