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Auteur(s) : Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Naṣr al- (0870?-0950)
Titre(s) : Syllogism [Texte imprimé] : an abridgement of Aristotle's Prior analytics / Al-Fārābī ; translated by Saloua Chatti and Wilfrid Hodges ; with an introduction by Wilfrid Hodges
Publication : London ; New York (N.Y.) : Bloomsbury Academic, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (207 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Lien à la collection : The Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 181-190. Notes bibliogr. Index
"The 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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Chatti, Saloua. Éditeur scientifique. Traducteur
Hodges, Wilfrid. Éditeur scientifique. Traducteur. Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). Premiers analytiques
Syllogisme
Indice(s) Dewey :
185 (23e éd.) = Philosophie d'Aristote
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350126992 (rel.). - ISBN 1350126993. - ISBN 9781350127012 (erroné). - ISBN
9781350127036 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465188909
Notice n° :
FRBNF46518890
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Table des matières : I. Introduction: 1. A brief guide to categorical syllogisms ; 2. Al-Fārābī and
his writings ; 3. The book Syllogism ; II. Translation: 4. Textual emendation ;
5. Translation of Syllogism ; 6. English-Arabic-Greek Glossary ; 7. Arabic-English
Index ; 8. Passages from Aristotle ; 9. Subject Index ; Bibliography
