Unusual Syllogisms: Avicenna and Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī on per impossibile Syllogisms and Implication (luzūm)
In his proofs of e- and e-conversion in Logic for Shams al-Dīn, Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī (d. 1276/7) accepts syllogisms that have redundant premises as theses. Similarities in Avicenna’s and Kātibī’s doctrines of the per impossibile syllogism suggest that Avicenna could have adopted such proofs and rem...
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Brill
2015
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Oriens
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 223-271 |
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B qiyās al-khalf B implication B luzūm B per impossibile syllogism |
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