Talk:Avempace

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: was also equivalent to Galileo's definition of velocity:[9]: Velocity = Motive Power - Material Resistance
is a very strange definition of velocity. The page, however, was heavily edited by Jagged85, so is not reliable William M. Connolley (talk) 09:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was his, so I removed it  William M. Connolley (talk) 10:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
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message: this: unlike his better-known brethren Avicenna and Averroes, Ibn Bajjah's Arabic name may now be more  in English these days. A cursory ngram shows Ibn Bajja (no H) leading Avempace. On the other hand, Google Scholar shows Avempace well in the lead over all the combinations of Ibn(-)Bajja(h) combined. What I imagine is that some other "Bajja" or "Bajjas" are muddying the waters and it would take mucking through the much less reliable Book and vanilla Google results to figure out who's involved and how much they're swinging the numbers. I'll leave that for any future editors who want to start a move proposal: I'm fine with leaving it here to keep it in line with the other guys, whose English names remain well in the lead.
 until the page does move, the article's  should start with the article's title. Kindly maintain that format pending a move. If the page moves, continue to lead with the common, shorter version and not the off-putting and unhelpful full list of patronymics. It also helps to keep a link to Arabic name handy, so people can try to understand it if they want. (All of these articles could actually use "Name" sections explaining how the Latin terms derived from Hebrew transcriptions of the Arabic, giving lists of variant spellings, and explaining and linking to the parts of the patronymic list... but I'll leave that to others who understand it better.)
 feel people who can't read the Arabic text can just zoom their browsers and it's not a good reason to muck with the English layout, but we should try to keep our style consistant across the Arabic pages. Since Muhammad and Avicenna have embiggened text, we should use it here until there's a community consensus to remove it.
 why the short form of the name gives Bājjah for the exact same text given as Bâjja in the long form name, but I've adjusted it to the long form, pending improvement from someone more knowledgable.
 whatsoever what this is talking about—"His beloved expressions were Gharib غريب and Mutawahhid متوحد, two approved and popular expressions of Islamic Gnostics.
"—but it's removed pending sourcing and much, much clearer and explanatory phrasing. — LlywelynII 10:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
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message: Not saying it isn't biased (it is) but "Avempace" at the EB 9th edition (1878) has some good treatment about the guy's influence and importance on the mediæval west, which deserves its own section here. — LlywelynII 10:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
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message: The introduction says his philosophy influenced Averroes and Albert Magnus and that he was a prominent figure in philosophy in his time. Yet there is no section about this philosophy. What did he say and how did he influence those people? LastDodo (talk) 08:49, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: No section on his philosophy?

message: The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article claims "he was...apparently a sceptic. He is said to have rejected the Koran, to have denied the return to God, and to have regarded death as the end of existence" (but he still became a vizier). If true this would be an important part of his biography, but there is no specific citation to support the EB1911 claim (there is a list of general authorities), so I'm reluctant to assert it. I suspect there may be more modern scholarship that may shed more light? David Brooks (talk) 00:45, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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