The most important surviving commentary, attributed to Liu Hui (3rd century), contains the earliest Chinese mathematical proofs in the modern sense.
This commentary is the earliest surviving commentary on an Aristotelian text.
His surviving commentary provides a concise and clear presentation of the solutions offered to the aporiai leveled against Aristotle's Categories.
One of the positions associated with the Nominales was that "nothing grows" (nihil crescit), and there is a surviving commentary on the Categories with Nominalist features where the author argues that any addition, removal, or even relocation of a part compromises the identity of the thing itself (Ebbesen 1999, 397).
The surviving, often voluminous, Greek commentaries on Aristotle's logical works by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 CE), Porphyry (234 c. 305), Ammonius Hermeiou (5th century), Philoponus (c. 500) and Simplicius (6th century) and the Latin ones by Boethius (c.
His commentaries survive because they were adopted as exemplary models by later commentators.
Boethius, however, although making occasional use of later commentaries, usually followed Porphyry: on the Categories he stayed close to Porphyry's surviving (and quite simple) question-and-answer commentary, whilst the long, second commentary on On Interpretation is commonly accepted as the best guide to Porphyry's exegesis, since his own commentary does not survive.
The historical evolution of architectural theory is assessable mainly from manuscripts and published treatises, from critical essays and commentaries, and from the surviving buildings of every epoch.
She writes and provides commentary on police culture and surviving police encounters.
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