Al-maqūlāt
Subtitle: commentary on Aristotle's categories
By: Avicenna = Ibn Sīnā ; translated and introduced by Allan Bäck
Series: Analytica liber conversus : translations of basic medieval and post-medieval texts in the series Analytica; Analytica liber conversus
Publisher: Philosophia
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Munich
Language: eng
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9783884051108
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Translations; Categories (Philosophy); Early works to 1800; Logic
Other titles: Commentary on Aristotle's categories
Work titles: Works
Description: "The translation of Avicenna’s "commentary” on Aristotle’s Categories, Al-Maqūlāt (Part One, Volume Two of Aš-Šhifāʼ), is given here with explanatory notes. Avicenna does not paraphrase the text. Rather, as he states, he comments upon what the correct doctrines are. He offers original doctrines on such topics as paronymy, the ontological square in Categories 2, predication, the antepredicamental rule, the number of the categories, distinction of primary and first substance, an account of relation, as opposed to relationship, the ontology of mathematical objects, and the predication of contraries. Avicenna uses and refers to these doctrines in his scientific works, particularly in his metaphysics."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.