Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)#Ibn
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#Ibn Sina
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · 980–1037
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“For six hundred years, across three religions and two continents, doing philosophy meant answering Avicenna — the self-taught prodigy who split what things are from the fact that they are, and rebuilt the universe around the crack.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Ask of anything what it is, and nothing in the answer tells you that it is. Existence is something everything in the world receives — except one Necessary Existent, whose very essence is to exist.”
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