Whatever you like. — tim wood
Just so! Word order in Greek, it being an inflected language, can be arbitrary.but it seems the 'subject' and the 'adjective' have been swapped around for no apparent reason. — Tzeentch
Just so! Word order in Greek, it being an inflected language, can be arbitrary. — tim wood
"Aristotle calls the science of metaphysics by no less than three names. Sometimes he calls it First Science, πρώτη φιλοσοφία [proto philosophia], φιλοσοφία being his regular name for science.... Sometimes he calls it Wisdom, σοφία, with the implication that this is the thing for which φιλοσοφία, science, is the search." (An Essay on Metaphysics, p. 5.) — tim wood
Just so! Word order in Greek, it being an inflected language, can be arbitrary.
The denotive and connotative fields of Greek and English words - as with any two languages - are not the same. You get, then, a degree of freedom in translation. But best to stay within the bounds of the shared parts of the fields, lest exegesis turn to eisegesis. — tim wood
No argument here. You can make any point you like, but a mistaken reliance on a mistranslation means the point is yours alone nor supported as you might think. — tim wood
Or “philately”, which is “love of stamps”*, not “stamps of love”.
* “atelos” is not literally the Greek word for “stamp” but is apparently the closest idiomatic translation. — Pfhorrest
Consider also “philanthropy”, which is “love of man”, not “man(liness?) of love”. — Pfhorrest
If you can share a word that ends with -sophy, that would be translated in a way akin to "x of knowledge" rather than "knowledge of x", I will seriously reconsider my position. — Tzeentch
But look also at the other side of the equation, other words beginning with "philo-" that mean "love of..." something, not something "...of love":
Philodemic, people-loving.
Philography, love of writing.
Philogyny, love of women.
Philomuse, a lover of the muses.
Philomusical, music-loving.
Philolexian, discourse-loving.
Philomathy, love of learning.
Philopolemic, war-loving.
Philoprogenitive, offspring-loving.
Philoxeny, love of strangers.
Philozoic, animal-loving. — Pfhorrest
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