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    It is not the case that Alcmaeon likely assigned continual motion but not self-motion to the soul

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    • 1.Aetius preserves independent doxographical traditions not solely derived from Aristotle, as Mansfeld and Runia's Aëtiana demonstrates.
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    • 2.If Aetius draws on pre-Aristotelian sources, his attribution of self-motion to Alcmaeon cannot be dismissed as mere Aristotelian paraphrase.
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    • 1.Alcmaeon's analogy between soul and heavenly bodies—which he explicitly calls self-moving—suggests self-motion is intrinsic to his cosmological framework.
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    • 2.An analogy functions philosophically by asserting shared properties, so denying self-motion to the soul undermines the explanatory force Alcmaeon intended.
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    • 1.Aristotle does not assign self-motion to Alcmaeon
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    • 2.The doxographical report in Aetius is a paraphrase of Aristotle with self-motion added
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    • 3.Self-motion attested for Plato and Xenocrates was projected back onto Pythagoras and Thales, who likely did not hold that view
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