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In Predication and Ontology A. Kalbarczyk provides the first
monograph-length study of the Arabic reception of Aristotle's
Categories. At the center of attention is the critical reappraisal
of that treatise by Ibn Sina (d. 428 AH/1037 AD), better known in
the Latin West as Avicenna. Ibn Sina's reading of the Categories is
examined in the context of his wider project of rearranging the
transmitted body of philosophical knowledge. Against the background
of the late ancient commentary tradition and subsequent exegetical
efforts, Ibn Sina's Kitab al-Maqulat of the Sifa' is interpreted as
a milestone in the gradual reshuffle of the relationship between
logic proper and ontology. In order to assess the philosophical
impact of this realignment, some of the subsequent developments in
Ibn Sina's writings and in the emerging post-Avicennian tradition
are also taken into account. The thematic focus lies on the two
fundamental classification schemes which Aristotle introduces in
the treatise: the fourfold division of Cat. 2 ("of a subject"/"in a
subject") and the tenfold scheme of Cat. 4 (i.e., substance and the
nine genera of accidents). They both pose the question of whether
and how the manner in which an expression is predicated relates to
extra-linguistic reality. As the study intends to show, this
question is one of the driving forces of Ibn Sina's momentous
reform of the Aristotelian curriculum. This monograph has been
awarded the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).
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