Being Another Way The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900-1500
In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula "to be," an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from wit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842734206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliterations, Dates, Texts, and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One. Revisiting the Myth of Adam's Fall
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. Historical Prelude
- 3. Greek Logic Arabicized and the Copula Transformed
- 4. Avicenna
- Part Two. An Overture Rather Than a Coda
- 5. The "New Logicians" Stirring Things Up
- 6. The Marāgha Generation of Logicians
- 7. The Great Dialectic Commentaries
- 8. To Shīrāz and Mughal India
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- General Index.
