While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

While the date of composition varies wildly among scholars, ranging from the era of Plato and Aristotle to the seventh century CE.

While Aquinas's theory follows generally the model of Aristotle, he develops a singular aesthetics which incorporates elements unique to his thought.

While Aristotle likewise identifies the first two characteristics, St. Thomas conceives of the third as an appropriation from principles developed by neo-Platonic and Augustinian thinkers.

While teaching ( 1589 – 92 ) at the University of Pisa, he initiated his experiments concerning the laws of bodies in motion, which brought results so contradictory to the accepted teachings of Aristotle that strong antagonism was aroused.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

While Xenophon and Plato also described realistic politics, and were closer to Machiavelli than Aristotle was, they, like Aristotle, also saw Philosophy as something higher than politics.

While Aristotle, Theon of Alexandria, Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ) and Chinese philosopher Mozi had earlier described the effects of a single light passing through a pinhole, none of them suggested that what is being projected onto the screen is an image of everything on the other side of the aperture.

* Non-Aristotelianism: While Aristotle wrote that a true definition gives the essence of the thing defined ( in Greek to ti ên einai, literally " the what it was to be "), general semantics denies the existence of such an ' essence '.

While some philosophers such as Aristotle ( and George Bernard Shaw ) consider pride a profound virtue, some world religions consider it a sin, such as is expressed in Proverbs 11: 2 of the Old Testament.

While his work in natural philosophy is probably overshadowed by Aristotle, it still helped lay the foundations for much of the progress that was made in the later centuries.

While Aristotle recognized that many living things emerged from putrefying matter, he pointed out that the putrefaction was not the source of life, but the byproduct of the action of the " sweet " element of water.

While still in Florence, Plethon summarised his lectures in a volume titled On the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, commonly called De Differentiis.

While not addressing the paradox directly, Aristotle commented on the futility of pursuing pleasure.

While Aristotle justified the existence of private ownership, he left open questions of ( 1 ) how to allocate property between what is private and common and ( 2 ) how to allocate the private property within society.

While virtue ethics was born with Plato and Aristotle, their forms of virtue ethics are by no means the only ones.

While the intrinsic optimists draw on Plato and Aristotle's writings on the value of philosophical inquiry, the instrumental optimists can draw on another aspect of the Ancients ' work: specifically, Aristotle was concerned both about " physics " ( and biology ) and " metaphysics ".

While various philosophers had influenced Christendom since its earliest times, in Western Europe Aristotle became " the Philosopher " under the influence of the Spanish Moslem philosopher Averroes.

While elections to the Gerousia were technically democratic, contemporary writers ( such as the Athenian philosopher Aristotle ) considered the fairness of the elections to be dubious at best.

While, in those instances where this harmony could not be established, Maimonides refused to follow Aristotle to the exclusion of Moses, his successors seemed bent upon the opposite course.

While still a youth he wrote commentaries on Aristotle, which were made public without his consent, and obtained for him a high reputation.

While Aristotle's view with respect to the eternity of the universe is rejected, Maimonides extensively borrows his proofs of the existence of God and his concepts such as the Prime Mover: " But as Maimonides recognizes the authority of Aristotle in all matters concerning the sublunary world, he proceeds to show that the Biblical account of the creation of the nether world is in perfect accord with Aristotelian views.

While it depicts the escapades of Francis I of France, censors of the time believed that it also contained insulting references to King Louis-Philippe and banned it after one performance.

While producing Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry was constantly besieged by demands for changes from the censors as NBC's Broadcast Standards department, which he took to calling the " BS Department " due to the often petty nature of their revisions.

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

While references to the sexual exploitation of maidservants appear in literature, it was considered disgraceful for a man to keep such women under the same roof as his wife.

While there are alleged non-physical differences between men and women, major reviews of the academic literature on gender difference find only a tiny minority of characteristics where there are consistent psychological differences between men and women, and these relate directly to experiences grounded in biological difference.

While these writings display some limited continuities with the earlier medical ideas known from the Vedas, historians have been able to demonstrate direct historical connections between early Ayurveda and the early literature of the Buddhists and Jains.

While in philosophy the term specifically refers to a position put forward by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman, in literature and art it refers to a variety of writers and movements.

While, theoretically relying on Michel Foucault ’ s theory of discipline and governmentality, as well as related insights in the social control literature, this paper examines Project Carnivore relative to the larger context of state rationality and related privacy issues.

While the types of writing systems in Mesoamerica range from minimalist " picture-writing " to complex logophonetic systems capable of recording speech and literature, they all share some core features that make them visually and functionally distinct from other writing systems of the world.

While it is uncertain to what extent his work was read amongst the warrior class as opposed to the clergy, Vegetius remained prominent in the literature on warfare in the medieval period.

While the cost for pain patients varies based on many factors, leading to few specifics in the literature, one source states that " in some cases monthly costs to patients for oral methadone can be more than 30-fold less than equianalgesic doses of other generic or brand-name opioid analgesics ".

While Julius II's political and warlike achievements would alone entitle him to rank amongst the most remarkable of the occupants of the papal chair, his chief title to honour is to be found in his patronage of art and literature.

While pro wrestling is often described simplistically as a " soap opera for males ", it has also been cited as filling the role of past forms of literature and theatre ; a synthesis of classical heroics, commedia dell ' arte, revenge tragedies, morality plays, and burlesque.

While few women are mentioned by name in rabbinic literature, and none are known to have authored a rabbinic work, those who are mentioned are portrayed as having a strong influence on their husbands, and occasionally having a public persona.

While Poulantzas ' work on ' state autonomy ' has served to sharpen and specify a great deal of Marxist literature on the state, his own framework came under criticism for its ' structural functionalism.

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.

While it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.

While there is a growing body of literature on sociolinguistic variation in French chat for example, other forms of computer mediated communication ( e. g. discussion fora, weblogs, etc.

While Recreative Science had attempted to include more physical sciences such as astronomy and archaeology, the Intellectual Observer broadened itself further to include literature and art as well.

While many adult cases in the medical literature are associated with mental disorders, most patients with habit polydipsia have no other detectable disease.

While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical literature over the questions like ‘ which country is more decentralized ?’ This is because decentralization is defined and measured differently in different studies ( Sharma, 2006 ).

While the term is sometimes used in sleep literature to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often defined as a positive response to either of two questions: " Do you experience difficulty sleeping?

While these ideals developed, socialist realism was accepted as the highest form of literature – a theory based on an art movement that depicted and glorified the proletariat ’ s struggle towards societal progress.

While Nasser was president, Egypt experienced a cultural boom, particularly in theater, film, literature, and music.