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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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συνεχές
synechesSyneches describes what is continuous.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordSyneches describes what is continuous.
- In StobaeusThe Aristotelian survey calls magnitudes and things possessing magnitude continuous and divisible without limit; its list includes motion and time as well as spatial things.
- In this edition“Continuous” does not mean merely persistent or long-lasting.
- A place to beginContinuity is applied to magnitudes and several kinds of bearer.
- English renderings
- continuity; the continuous
Meaning
Syneches describes what is continuous. In the relevant reports, continuous magnitude is connected with divisibility rather than a heap of indivisible pieces.
Use in the book
The Aristotelian survey calls magnitudes and things possessing magnitude continuous and divisible without limit; its list includes motion and time as well as spatial things. The account of time explains continuity through earlier and later portions and makes the now their boundary. A common boundary connects the sequence without turning the now into an extended piece of time.
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Translation in this edition
“Continuous” does not mean merely persistent or long-lasting. The local argument concerns how a magnitude or ordered sequence admits division.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 103, 141.
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Joseph Joubert · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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continuité; continu
Continuity is persistence or connection across successive parts.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordContinuity is persistence or connection across successive parts.
- In JoubertThe landscape passage offers two constructions: recurring level ground and the aggregation of connected inequalities.
- In this edition“Continuity” and “continuous” preserve the family across these contexts.
- A place to beginConnected inequalities can make geographical continuity.
- English renderings
- continuity; continuous
Meaning
Continuity is persistence or connection across successive parts. It can belong to a landscape, an inward occupation, or the sustained making of a work.
Use in the book
The landscape passage offers two constructions: recurring level ground and the aggregation of connected inequalities. Continuity therefore need not be uniform smoothness. An extended literary work requires an even continuity of force, movement, and attention, while an uninterrupted chain of reasoning can lack the beautiful interval produced by an ellipsis. What counts as desirable continuity depends on the work and the scale: uninterrupted surface is not the only form of coherence.
Places to read
- I, p. 470, entry 4, ¶4Connected inequalities can make geographical continuity.
- II, p. 924, entry 4, ¶1Extensive composition requires sustained force and attention.
- II, p. 736, entry 5, ¶1An entirely continuous maxim differs from a beautifully elliptical one.
Translation in this edition
“Continuity” and “continuous” preserve the family across these contexts. The epic-verse remark cites Aristotle generally; the lexicon does not supply an unverified location or make the attribution independent evidence.
Source note
Beaunier 1938, I, pp. 470; II, pp. 736, 924.