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Footnotes
. The author thanks the many people who have discussed the ideas in this paper and made helpful suggestions: E. Asmis; R. Richards; M. Mahowald; D. Millett; M. Frampton; W. Wimsatt; C. Bobonich; M. Forster; P. Sereno; and A. Cosans.
All translations from the Greek are the author's.
1. Francis Cornford provides a detailed analysis of mind and necessity's roles in the narrative of the Timaeus [5]. Plato gives no less than three distinct genesis narratives: the birth of order from mind (29d-47e), the development of perceptible matter from necessity (47e-68d), and the origin of biological life from both mind and necessity (68e-92c). Cornford makes this three-fold division of the Timaeus a central point of his interpretation. Since Plato explicitly refers to going from one genesis narrative to the next, this distinction has strong support in the text.
The Platonic Origins of Anatomy
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