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Adler number: alpha,4482
Translated headword: itself
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The philosophers used to call 'itself' anything that was said in its proper sense. By means of this 'itself' they also signified the abstract form, saying 'mankind itself' and 'opinion itself',[1] that is, properly and more conjectural than average and more of a opinion: and 'in truth itself', in the sense of 'more accurately'. So that it is 'opinion itself'.[2] For wherever one finds 'itself', there one finds things in their utmost and more accurate sense.
Greek Original:Auto: auto elegon hoi philosophoi to kuriôs legomenon. kai tên idean dia tou auto edêloun autoanthrôpos legontes kai autodoxaston, to kuriôs kai mallon doxaston kai mallon doxa: kai autoalêthôs, hêi esti mallon akribôs. hôste estin autodoxa. en hôi gar to auto, en toutôi malista kai akribesteron.
Notes:
In the Greek (but hard to replicate in translation), the headword actually functions as a prefix. For an instance, see
alpha 4483.
[1] For what follows cf. Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 572.18-19; 573.7-8, 14-15.
[2]
Aristotle,
Topica 162a30.
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 March 2002@22:47:47.
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