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ἀδιά-φορος

adiaphoros

not different

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Discourses 17 · 2.29/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 22 · 2.06/10k
Meditations 6 · 2.06/10k
Metaphysics 16 · 2.04/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 4 · 0.72/10k
Enneads 12 · 0.57/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ἀδιά-φορος · adia-phoros — LSJ

not different, indistinguishable

not different, Arist. Rh. 1373a33; τοῖς ὁμοίοις καὶ ἀ. Id. Cael. 310b5; indistinguishable, ὅμοιον καὶ ἀ. Epicur. Nat. 15 G.

2 individual objects, no logical differentia

in Logic, ἀδιάφορα, τά, individual objects, as having no logical differentia, ἀ. ὧν ἀδιαίρετον τὸ εἶδος Arist. Metaph. 1016a18; ἀ. εἴδει Top. 121b15; κατὰ τὸ εἶδος ib. 103a11.

3 undiscriminating

undiscriminating, ὀνομασία Epicur. Nat. 14.10.

II indifferent, neither good nor bad, indifferent

indifferent; in Stoic philosophy, τὰ ἀ. things neither good nor bad, Zeno Stoic. 1.47,48, cf. Cic. Fin. 3.16.53, Epict. Ench. 32, etc., cf. S.E. P. 3.177 sq.: Sup., Phld. Rh. 1.129 S. Adv. -ρως, ἔχειν to be indifferent, of the moral agent, Aristo Stoic. 1.79.

III common

in metre, common, Heph. 4, cf. Sch.Pi. p.15 Böckh.

IV making no distinction

of persons, making no distinction, πρὸς πάντα ξένον καὶ δημότην Dicaearch. 1.14.

2 steadfast, unwearying

steadfast, unwearying, Ant.Lib. 41.2.

V negligible, not differing

Math., negligible, πρός τι Procl. Hyp. 4.61; ἀ. πρὸς αἴσθησιν not differing sensibly, Aristarch.Sam. 4. Adv., Hipparch. 3.5.7.

VI without discrimination

Adv. -ρως without discrimination, D.H. Dem. 56, S.E. P. 3.225.

In the wild

ἀδιαφόροις · adiaphorois Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2371)
ἀδιάφοροι · adiaphoroi Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2368)
ἀδιαφόρων · adiaphorōn Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2458)
ἀδιάφορα · adiaphora Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2361)
ἀδιάφορος · adiaphoros Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 160)
ἀδιάφορα · adiaphora Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2624)

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