The distinction between the terms may reflect established differences in ancient Greek terminology, tying probabilis to pithanon (persuasive, adoptable) and verisimilis to eikos (truth-like).
He often appealed to ancient Zoroastrian motifs, terminology and mythical figures, even Mazdean theology, e.g., in his Invocations and Prayers (Suhrawardi, 1976; cf. with occult and devotional works unearthed by Walbridge, 2011).
When works that put forward new ideas are translated, determining the original terminology (in Ancient Greek in this case) is not easy.
What's more, the very recourse to a terminology of "ownership" imbues ancient cultural questions with modern, capitalist practices – suddenly, culture sounds not so much like a living thing, but rather a lot like a copyright.
Edward L. Greenstein, Professor of Bible at the Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University, disagrees with Perdu's terminology, stating that the ancient world produced no "autobiographies" in the modern sense, and these should be distinguished from 'autobiographical' texts of the ancient world.
The probability-related terminology of the Middle Ages descended from ancient sources such as Aristotle, Cicero and Boethius.
But while the terminology has changed, the experience itself is ancient.
Analytical research carried out on black earths integrated with information collected from ancient written sources provides a better definition of these materials and sheds light on a more precise terminology for their variable compositions.
And it would seem that certain words of ancient provenance — like "good," "evil," "free will," even "original sin" — do not have to be superseded by pseudo-scientific terminology just because they happen to derive from a God-centered approach to man.
These latent structures, originally sown into matter at its creation, Bonaventure calls, following the terminology of St. Augustine, rationes seminales or seminal reasons, a term hearkening back to the cosmology of the ancient Stoics.
