The Criterion of Completeness in Avicenna’s Reorganization of the Predicables into a System of Notions Resulting in Concept Formation

The aim of the paper is to show that Avicenna’s reorganization of the division of the predicables into a system of notions (maʿānī) resulting in concept formation is the product of his attempt to integrate Aristotle’s different approaches to definition in a consistent system. The first approach is t...

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Main Author: Schoeck, Cornelia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Oriens
Year: 2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 386-416
Further subjects:B al-Fārābī
B concept formation (taṣawwur)
B Avicenna
B Topics
B predicables
B Alexander of Aphrodisias
B accidental notions (maʿānī ʿaraḍiyya)
B Ǧadal
B completeness
B Madḫal
B essential notions (maʿānī ḏātiyya)
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