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Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Hardcover)
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Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key
Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular
Aristotle's logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations
translated into Arabic via Syriac and possibly Persian. For
example, he revised a general description of Aristotle's logic by
the 6th century Paul the Persian, and further influenced famous
later philosophers and theologians writing in Arabic in the 11th to
12th centuries: Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Avempace and Averroes.
Averroes' reports on Farabi were subsequently transmitted to the
West in Latin translation. This book is an abridgement of
Aristotle's Prior Analytics, rather than a commentary on successive
passages. In it Farabi discusses Aristotle's invention, the
syllogism, and aims to codify the deductively valid arguments in
all disciplines. He describes Aristotle's categorical syllogisms in
detail; these are syllogisms with premises such as 'Every A is a B'
and 'No A is a B'. He adds a discussion of how categorical
syllogisms can codify arguments by induction from known examples or
by analogy, and also some kinds of theological argument from
perceived facts to conclusions lying beyond perception. He also
describes post-Aristotelian hypothetical syllogisms, which draw
conclusions from premises such as 'If P then Q' and 'Either P or
Q'. His treatment of categorical syllogisms is one of the first to
recognise logically productive pairs of premises by using
'conditions of productivity', a device that had appeared in the
Greek Philoponus in 6th century Alexandria.
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