doxographical

The version in the doxographical tradition is somewhat better (DK, A12).

Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008

Where corroborating evidence exists in literary or doxographical works, we are justified in describing his views as reformulations of the Stoic tradition; otherwise the question of continuity should generally be left open.

Epictetus Graver, Margaret 2008

Aristotle introduces Parmenides together with Melissus as representing the position, within the Gorgianic doxographical schema structuring his own examination of earlier archê-theories, that there is a single and unchanging archê or principle

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

This is, in fact, not a fragment but a testimonium and most of the language comes from the doxographical tradition rather than Alcmaeon.

Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008

Aristotle and Theophrastus refer to him a number of times but never identify him as a Pythagorean, and this is the practice of the doxographical tradition

Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008

Aristotle's comments do not sound as if they were based on first-hand knowledge of Thales 'views, and the doxographical reports say that Thales did not write a book.

Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

Whatever views Pythagoras might have had are replaced by late Platonic metaphysics in the doxographical tradition.

Pythagoras Huffman, Carl 2006

The doxographical reports about Hicetas and Ecphantus ultimately rely on Theophrastus (Cicero mentions Theophrastus by name at DK I 441.27), and it is implausible that Theophrastus would treat characters invented by his older contemporary, Heraclides, as historical figures.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

Several doctrines of Xenocrates are also assigned to Pythagoras in the doxographical tradition, e.g. the definition of the soul as "a number moving itself," which Xenocrates clearly developed on the basis of Plato's

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

Theophrastus, who is the primary basis of the doxographical tradition, says that it was Parmenides who discovered the sphericity of the earth

Pythagoras Huffman, Carl 2006