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Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900

Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900

El-Rouayheb, Khaled

Hardcover

PhilosophyIslam

ISBN10: 9004183191
ISBN13: 9789004183193
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 14 2010
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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