Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 7.1.43

R. D. Hicks (Translator)

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Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.

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Current edition Perseus

Lives of Eminent Philosophers (English) (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.)

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Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων Perseus (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.) — 7.1.43 focus

Notes on the current edition

Lives of Eminent Philosophers

1. The word φαντασία (= appearance or appearing) is a technical term in Stoic logic for which no one English equivalent is as yet unanimously adopted. It denotes the immediate datum of consciousness or experience, whether presented to sense or in certain cases to the mind. Hence presentation is nearer than perception or impression. It might be thought to correspond to Locke’s simple ideas, for which Hume substituted impressions and ideas; but this is hardly so; for φαντασίαι are given as it were from without, and then with them as materials the mind itself constructs general notions and concepts.