Some Aspects of the Theory of Abstraction in Plotinus and Iamblichus

International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 9 (2):159-176 (2015)
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_ Source: _Volume 9, Issue 2, pp 159 - 176 The purpose of this paper is the analysis of the Plotinian and Iamblichean reading of the Aristotelian theory of abstraction, and its relationship with the status of mathematical entities, as they were conceived within a Platonic model, according to which mathematical objects are ontological autonomous and separate

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