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The Propositional Logic of Avicenna :

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9401026246

(Number (ISBN

9789401026246

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b594433

Title Proper

The Propositional Logic of Avicenna :

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[Book]

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a Translation from al-Shifāʼ: al-Qiyās with Introduction, Commentary and Glossary

First Statement of Responsibility

by Nabil Shehaby.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1973

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(320 pages)

Series Title

Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in The History of Logic and Philosophy, 7.

Text of Note

Translation --; Al-Qiy?s Book V --; One On Conditional Propositions and Their Types --; Two On Separative-Conditional Propositions --; Three Onthe Kinds of Combinations in Pure Conditional --; Four On Explaining the Meaning of the Universal, the Particular, the Indefinite and the Singular [Connective-] Conditional Proposition --; Five On the Universal Negative in [Connective-] Conditional Propositions --; Book VI --; One On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective-Conditional Propositions Arranged in Three Figures --; Two On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective and Separative Propositions --; Three On the Syllogisms Compounded of Separative Propositions --; Four Onthe Syllogisms Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions --; Five On the Three Figures of the Syllogisms Compounded of a Predicative and a Conditional Proposition Where the Predicative Shares [Either Its Subject or Its Predicate] with [the Subject or the Predicate] of the Antecedent (of the Conditional Proposition) --; Six On the Three Figures of the Divided Syllogism --; Book VII --; One On Equipollence and Opposition Between Connective-Conditional Propositions --; Two On the Opposition Between Separative-Conditional Propositions and Separative- and Connective-Conditional Propositions and the State of Their Equipollence --; Three On the Conversion of the Connective Proposition --; Book VIII --; One On the Definition of the Exceptive Syllogism --; Two On the Enumeration of the Exceptive Syllogisms [which have a Separative-Conditional Premiss] --; Book IX --; One On Explaining that Exceptive Syllogisms Cannot Be Completed Except by Conjunctive Syllogisms --; Commentary --; Book V --; Book VI --; Book VII --; Book VIII --; Book IX.

Text of Note

The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con ditional propositions and syllogisms. The text is that of A vicenna (Abu represents his views on the subject as they were held throughout his life.

Logic.

Philosophy (General)

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by Nabil Shehaby.

Nabil Shehaby

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[Book]

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