Abstract Deriving from a larger investigation into the sources used by Leonidas of Byzantium for his second-century AD Halieutica , this article argues that handful passages in Aelian’s De natura animalium (3.18, 3.28, 10.13, 10.20, 11.21, 11.23–24, 12.24–25[24] and 12.27[25]) comprise coherent series indebted to same section Leonidas’ work. More importantly, all these accounts are ultimately d...

IN COMMENTING on the classical authors the medieval commentators very often used a formal introduction setting out a number of topics to be treated in the commentary upon the text. This accessus ad auctores has been discussed by Quain,' who lists a wide variety of branches of study in which the accessus was used; the only significant oniission from this list is medicine. Medical examples, howev...

Did Plato and Aristotle have anything to say about belief? The answer to this question might seem blindingly obvious: of course they did. Plato distinguishes belief from knowledge in the Meno, Republic, and Theaetetus, and Aristotle does so in the Posterior Analytics. Plato distinguishes belief from perception in the Theaetetus, and Aristotle does so in the de Anima. They talk about the distinc...

This study, a tribute to Aristotle's 2400 years, used a juxtaposition of valid Aristotelian arguments to the paradoxes formulated by Zeno the Eleatic, in order to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of attentional and /or memory processing effects in the course of deductive reasoning. Participants undertook reasoning tasks based on visually presented arguments which were either (a) ...

A novel way to represent knowledge using extended semantic networks as underlying model is presented. This approach extends the semantic network idea from its frequent application in presenting human-readable data correlations into a basis for a general computerized data modelling technology. The method was successfully applied using biological data from the Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL sections of th...

In his discussion of the four causes, Aristotle claims that ‘the hypotheses are material causes of the conclusion’ (Physics 2. 3, Metaphysics Δ 2). This claim has puzzled commentators since antiquity. It is usually taken to mean that the premisses of any deduction are material causes of the conclusion. By contrast, I argue that the claim does not apply to deductions in general but only to scien...

E-mail address: [email protected] Nikolaos E. Mezilis Saint Lukes Hospital Thessaloniki Greece Georgios Giannakoulas Cardiology Department AHEPA General Hospital Stilp. Kiriakidi 1, 54 637 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece Georgios E. Parcharidis Cardiology Department AHEPA General Hospital Stilp. Kiriakidi 1, 54 637 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Gr...

*Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 540106, Greece; †Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Veterinary Services, 1417 Nicosia, Cyprus; ‡Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Aristotle University of Thess...