Avicenna, Arabic Ibn Sīnā, in full Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (born 980, near Bukhara, Iran [now in Uzbekistan]—died 1037, Hamadan, Iran), Muslim physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy […]
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A Critical Examination of Ibn-Sina’s Theory of the Conditional Syllogism
Zia MovahedIntroductionAfter the publication of Ibn-Sina’s al-Shifa: al-Qiyas, edited by S. Zayed, Cairo, 1964, whereIbn-Sina presented most extensively his theory of the conditional syllogisms and, later on, thepublication of Nabil Shehaby’s translation of it into English in 19731 I think we have all weshould have in hand to evaluate Ibn-Sina’s theory as it is, a […]