Averroes is an English word with synonyms like physician or doc. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Averroes in a sentence
Averroes meaning
An Andalusian polymath (1126–1198).
Using Averroes
- The main meaning on this page is: An Andalusian polymath (1126–1198).
- Useful related words include: ibn-roshd, dr., md, physician.
Context around Averroes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Averroes
- In this selection, "averroes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, work, emphasized, position and term stand out and add context to how "averroes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include according to averroes aristotle s and averroes also provided. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "averroes" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with averroes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Averroes also provided a description of sunspots in the 12th century. (11 words)
Later, Averroes and Thomas Aquinas considered the argument acceptable, but not necessarily the best argument. (15 words)
Averroes' term for the argument was Dalīl al-ˁināya, which can be translated as "argument from providence". (17 words)
None of history’s great philosophers—not Plato or Aristotle, or Confucius or Averroes, or even Rousseau or Kant—saw the need to consider justice or the redress of injustices from a social perspective. (34 words)
Averroes' position that the most logically valid proof should be physical rather than metaphysical (because then metaphysics would be proving itself) was in conscious opposition to the position of Avicenna. (30 words)
The principal demonstrative proof is, according to Averroes, Aristotle's proof from motion in the universe that there must be a first mover which causes everything else to move. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
In his work, Averroes emphasized the need for scholars to practice philosophy and to study nature created by God.
Averroes also provided a description of sunspots in the 12th century.
Averroes' position that the most logically valid proof should be physical rather than metaphysical (because then metaphysics would be proving itself) was in conscious opposition to the position of Avicenna.
Averroes' term for the argument was Dalīl al-ˁināya, which can be translated as "argument from providence".
Later, Averroes and Thomas Aquinas considered the argument acceptable, but not necessarily the best argument.
None of history’s great philosophers—not Plato or Aristotle, or Confucius or Averroes, or even Rousseau or Kant—saw the need to consider justice or the redress of injustices from a social perspective.
See for example page 194. In fact then, Averroes treated the teleological argument as one of two "religious" arguments for the existence of God.
The principal demonstrative proof is, according to Averroes, Aristotle's proof from motion in the universe that there must be a first mover which causes everything else to move.