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Aristotle, De Insomniis 462a18

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Pamela M. Huby
Pamela M. Huby
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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Extract

The interpretation of these words is important for understanding the meaning of in Aristotle. For here, exceptionally, it has been taken to refer to sense-perceptions rather than images.

I quote the Oxford translation of 462a15–24 (by J. I. Beare): ‘From all this, then, the conclusion to be drawn is that the dream is a sort of presentation (), and, more particularly, one which occurs in sleep; since the phantoms just mentioned are not dreams, nor is any other a dream which presents itself when the sense-perceptions are in a state of freedom. Nor is every presentation which occurs in sleep necessarily a dream.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 1975 , pp. 151 - 152
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1975

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References

1 I owe this point to Richard Sorabji.