He also keeps his desires and appetites under they strict control of reason...

He also keeps his desires and appetites under they strict control of reason, so that he reduces them only to such as are indispensable to life. Later Cynics regarded all pleasures as evil.

In extreme cases like that of Diogenes (Dayujans al-Kalabi, q.v.) this philosophy expressed itself in a revolt against all social conventions and courtesies and in a desire to live the life of nature amidst a civilised community, The Stoics (Ashab al-Mazallah, q.v.) are considered to be the followers of the Cynics, but their doctrine is less severe and more humanitarian. kalimah In logic any single utterance referring to a meaning or to the: definite time of the occurrence of an event or action.

"How much?"; technically, the category of quantity as one of the ten Aristotelian categories (al-maqulat al-‘ashr, q.v.). It denotes the volume of a thing as well as the duration of an event and is of various kinds: al-kamm al-muttasil (q.v.), al-kamm al-munfasil (q.v.), al-kamm al-muttasil qarr al-dhat, and al-kamm al-muttasil ghair qarr al-dhat (see below al-kamm al-mattasil). al-kamm al-muttasil The continuous quantity, i. e.

the quantity of the kind the parts of which are so contiguous to one another that they form arts of which are so contiguous to one another that they form a single continuum; it is either a spatial continuum (makan) or a, temporal continuum, i.e. time (zaman, q.v.). The spatial continuum is of three kinds, viz. (1) one-dimensional, i.e. line (khatt); (2) two-dimensional, i.e. surface (sath); and (3) three-dimensional, and 'i.e. volume (hajm).

As all these are static continua, they are classed under. the category of al-kamm al-muttasil qarr al-dhat (the unchanging continuous quantity). The temporal continuum, though .constituted of the series of past, present and future, is uni-dimensional and, being in a perpetual flux, is named as al-kamm al-muttasil ghair qarr al-dh-at (the ever-changing continuous .quantity).