Homeomerous and Automerous

Johanna Seibt

Homeomerous and Automerous

Johanna Seibt

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The ancient Greek adjective ‘óμoιoμερής’ (homoeomerēs) – literally: ‘of like parts’ – and the associated noun ‘óμoιoμέρεια’ (homoeoméreia) – literally: ‘likepartedness’ – seem to have their first systematic use in Aristotle. Mourelatos (1998, p.336f) notes, however, that both “occur – probably tendentiously, under the influence of Aristotle’s usage – also in our ancient sources for a pre-Aristotelian philosopher, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, with reference to the constituent “things” (chremata) involved in the latter’s scheme of universal mixture”. The Greek terms are transliterated into English as 'homoeomerous' (or simplified as 'homeomerous' or even 'homomerous') and 'homoeomery' (or 'homeomereity'), respectively.

¹Department for Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University Aarhus

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