Publication

2016 - Philosophia, Munich, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

97,500 words, Guess

Page Count

390 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCB438 .A95 2016

Alternate Titles

  • Commentary on Aristotle's categories

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."--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Analytica liber conversus : translations of basic medieval and post-medieval texts in the series Analytica

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