Complex sentence: With the possible exceptions of Avicenna and Averroes, medieval thinkers did not consider themselves philosophers at all: for them, the philosophers were the ancient pagan writers such as Plato and Aristotle.
Split into simpler sentences: With the possible exceptions of Avicenna and Averroes, medieval thinkers did not consider themselves philosophers at all. For them, the philosophers were the ancient pagan writers such as Plato and Aristotle.