addition to historical analyses, three different types of reading of the ideas of al-farabi have been offered: first, the connection between his ideas and the greek thought; second, the connection between his ideas and theology, and the relationship that can be established between philosophy and religiousness; and third, the explication of al-farabi’s ideas on the basis of the crisis (-es) he f...

It is widely believed that the ancient Greeks thought Thales was first philosopher, and they therefore maintained philosophy had a Greek origin. This paper challenges these assumptions, arguing most thinkers who expressed views about history development of rejected both positions. I argue not even Aristotle presented as doing so would have undermined his philosophical commitments interests. Bey...

The present study has examined the similarity and the mutual intelligibility between Amharic and two Tigrigna varities using three tools; namely Levenshtein distance, intelligibility test and questionnaires. The study has shown that both Tigrigna varieties have almost equal phonetic and lexical distances from Amharic. The study also indicated that Amharic speakers understand less than 50% of th...

The xgreek package provides rudimentary support for Greek language typesetting with XƎLATEXand LuaLATEX. In particular, it provides support for modern Greek (either monotonic or polytonic) and ancient Greek.