Predication and Ontology

Alexander Kalbarczyk

ISBN 10: 3110584735 / ISBN 13: 9783110584738

Edité par De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Aug 2018, 2018

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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 S¿n¿ (d. 428 AH/1037 AD), better known in the Latin West as Avicenna. Ibn S¿n¿¿s reading of the Categories is examined in the context of his wider project of rearranging the transmitted body of philosophical knowledge. Against the background of the late ancient commentary tradition and subsequent exegetical efforts, Ibn S¿n¿¿s Kit¿b al-Maq¿l¿t of the ¿if¿¿ is interpreted as a milestone in the gradual reshuffle of the relationship between logic proper and ontology. In order to assess the philosophical impact of this realignment, some of the subsequent developments in Ibn S¿n¿¿s writings and in the emerging post-Avicennian tradition are also taken into account. The thematic focus lies on the two fundamental classification schemes which Aristotle introduces in the treatise: the fourfold division of Cat. 2 ('of a subject'/'in a subject') and the tenfold scheme of Cat. 4 (i.e., substance and the nine genera of accidents). They both pose the question of whether and how the manner in which an expression is predicated relates to extra-linguistic reality. As the study intends to show, this question is one of the driving forces of Ibn S¿n¿¿s momentous reform of the Aristotelian curriculum.This monograph has been awarded the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 356 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Predication and Ontology
• Éditeur: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Aug 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3110584735
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110584738
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 246 L x 175 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 246 millimètres de largeur par 175 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 783 grammes

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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 Sīnā's reading of the Categories is examined in the context of his wider project of rearranging the transmitted body of philosophical knowledge. Against the background of the late ancient commentary tradition and subsequent exegetical efforts, Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Maqūlāt of the Sifāʾ is interpreted as a milestone in the gradual reshuffle of the relationship between logic proper and ontology. In order to assess the philosophical impact of this realignment, some of the subsequent developments in Ibn Sīnā's writings and in the emerging post-Avicennian tradition are also taken into account. The thematic focus lies on the two fundamental classification schemes which Aristotle introduces in the treatise: the fourfold division of Cat. 2 ("of a subject"/"in a subject") and the tenfold scheme of Cat. 4 (i.e., substance and the nine genera of accidents). They both pose the question of whether and how the manner in which an expression is predicated relates to extra-linguistic reality. As the study intends to show, this question is one of the driving forces of Ibn Sīnā's momentous reform of the Aristotelian curriculum.

This monograph has been awarded the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).

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Alexander Kalbarczyk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.