Talk:Peripatetic axiom

It sounds Greek, not Latin, to me...

Okay, does it still need to be cleaned up? It looks nice to me. --JDitto 19:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

A different Latin expression of the axiom

I just came across this Latin sentence in Susanne Langer's "Philosophy in a New Key": "Nihil est in homine quod non prius in amoeba erat." I googled to find a translation and found this in "Emotion and Meaning in La Bohème: An Application of the Aesthetic Constructs of Leonard B. Meyer": 'This concept is expressed in the Peripatetic Axiom: “Nihil est in homine quod non prius in amoeba erat" (Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the  senses).'

Is this indeed another way of expressing the Axiom in Latin? If so, perhaps someone would care to add it to the entry. Nick (talk) 20:56, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

The meaning of the Latin there is "Nothing is in man that was not first in the amoeba." In other words, it's a punning adaptation of the principle to evolutionary theory. Given the title of the works you found it in, I wouldn't be surprised if the authors copied it from somewhere, not realizing that it was not the original axiom. 2604:3D09:7B80:CC0:58E2:2FB4:5BD4:EF06 (talk) 20:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)