Fleming

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Apathy

According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.

Aphorism

The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, “Life is short, and the art is long.”

Ideal

The ideal is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame.

Identical

When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity.

Selfish

Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.

Unification

Unification with God was the final aim of the Neoplatonicians.

Virtual

A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence.