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    Tensile Motion, Time and Recurrence in Stoicism
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (3): 31-36. 2018.
    The Stoic theory of recurrence is founded on Stoic biological and cosmological doctrines. This paper argues that these connections are far more elaborate and well-determined than generally assumed. Evidence from the Stoic theory of the motion of pneuma is brought to bear and a rival geometric model of time is supported against the standard linear and circular models supported by Salles and Long. The new ‘torus model’ is inspired by Alexander of Aphrodisias’ inquisitive questioning of what form t…Read more