Menawita pangecualian saking Avicenna lan Averroes, para pakayunan ring abad pertengaha nenten ngangep dewek nyane dados filsuf: manut ida nyane, para filsuf inggih punika panyurat pagan kuno pateh sakadi Plato lan Aristoteles.
With the possible exceptions of Avicenna and Averroes, medieval thinkers did not consider themselves philosophers at all: for them, the philosophers were the ancient pagan writers such as Plato and Aristotle.