Article ID: CBB000931194

Al-Fārābī on Indefinite and Privative Names (2008)

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In his Short Treatise and his Commentary on the Peri hermeneias, al-Farabi offers two different but related accounts of indefinite terms and the propositions that contain them. In both works he presents a series of different senses that an indefinite term may have, commencing with a sense in which such a term would be equivalent to a privative term, and concluding with a sense in which it would determine the logical complement of the corresponding definite term. I offer an interpretation of this series according to which they reveal the workings of a fine analytical mind and a subtle teacher.

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Authors & Contributors
Janos, Damien
Adamson, Peter
Streetman, W. Craig
Schoeler, Gregor
Richter-Bernburg, Lutz
Rashed, Marwan
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Philosophy
Logic
Medicine
Cosmology
Prophecies
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
Ancient
11th century
9th century
12th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Europe
Greece
Andalusia (Spain)
Byzantium
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