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Predication and Ontology : Studies and Texts on Avicennian and Post-Avicennian Readings of Aristotle's ›Categories‹ /

In Predication and Ontology A. Kalbarczyk provides the first monograph-length study of the Arabic reception of Aristotle's Categories. At the center of attention is the critical reappraisal of that treatise by Ibn Sīnā (d. 428 AH/1037 AD), better known in the Latin West as Avicenna. Ibn Sīna...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalbarczyk, Alexander (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Key issues in Ibn Sīnā's reception of the categories and in the ensuing philosophical debates: Varying approaches of determining the scope of the categories
  • Ibn Sīnā's reception of the two Aristotelian criteria for dividing "beings" (ővra): "being said of a subject" and "existing in a subject"
  • Attempts at providing a systematization of the scheme of ten categories
  • Disputes about the conceptual unity and generic predicability of accident and substance
  • Summary and conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Indices.