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Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,460
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Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Hardcover): Saloua Chatti, Wilfrid Hodges

Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Hardcover)

Saloua Chatti, Wilfrid Hodges

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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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Release date: September 2020
Editors: Saloua Chatti • Wilfrid Hodges
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-12699-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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