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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)

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#IbnSina

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 Great Philosophers, Ch. 77

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.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 77

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