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Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Ser.: Al-Farabi, Syllogism: an Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics by Wilfrid Hodges (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101350194891
ISBN-139781350194892
eBay Product ID (ePID)28050400342
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAl-Farabi, Syllogism: an Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics
Publication Year2022
SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Metaphysics, Logic, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorWilfrid Hodges
SeriesAncient Commentators on Aristotle Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal160
Table Of ContentPreface Richard Sorabji Conventions Acknowledgements Introduction Wilfrid Hodges 1. A Brief Guide to Categorical Syllogisms 2. Al-Farabi and his Writings 3. The Book Syllogism Textual Emendations Translation Notes Bibliography English-Arabic-Greek Glossary Arabic-English Index Index of Passages from Aristotle Subject Index
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberPA3891.A2F37 2022
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