Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

Cover
Series
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	An Outline of the Project
	A Brief Historical Introduction
Part I. A Study of the Ladder and Its Commentarial Tradition
	1. The Ladder of the Sciences and Its Commentaries
		Muḥibballāh al-Bihārī
		The Earliest Layer of First-Order Commentaries
			Summary of Findings
		First Order Commentaries: Stage Two
			Summary of Findings
		Second-Order Commentaries
			Ḥamdallāh
			Qāḍī Mubārak
			Summary of Findings
			Mullā Ḥasan
			Summary of Findings
		Other First-Order Commentaries  on the Sullam
			Summary of Findings
	2. The Ladder of the Sciences
		The Structure of the Sullam
		Dialectics
		Embedded Texts
		Commentarial Effort and Reception: An Example
		The Ladder’s Orientations
		Conclusions
Part II. A Theory of Commentaries
	3. Anatomy of the Commentary
		An Orally Inhabited Textuality: The Unity of Commentarial Voices
		Tradition and Partisanship in Dialectical Verification
		Conclusions
	4. Anatomy of the Commentary
		Writing the Tradition: Self-Reflections in the Commentarial Prolegomena
		A Technical Conundrum: Curating Textual Orality via Hints
		Writing and Excavation: Authorship, Authority, and Originality
		Concluding Reflections: Dynamism
Part III. Translation and Study
	5. A Translation and Study of the Sullam
		The Ladder of the Sciences
			Proem
			Preface
			On Knowledge
			Conception and Assent
			On the Purpose of Logic
			On the Inquiries
		On Conceptualizations
			On the Absolutely Unknown
			Signification and Semantics
			On Simple and Compound Utterances
			On Particulars and Universals
			Other Forms of Utterances
			Literal and Metaphorical Speech
			Synonyms
			Statements and Proposition
			Liar Paradox
			Other Compound Utterances
			On Universals and Particulars
			On Contradictories of Universals
			The Five Universals: Essential and Accidental
			On the Nature of the Five Universals
			On Logical, Natural, and Mental Universals
			On Definitions
		On Assents
			On Judgments: To What Do They Pertain?
			Parts of a Proposition
			Types of Propositions
			Conditional Propositions
			On the Subject Term
			On Quantification and Subject Terms
			On Predication
			On Divested Propositions
			On Modals
			On Conditionals
			On Contradiction
			On Conversion
			On Contradictory Conversion
			Syllogisms: Definitions
			Types and Parts of Syllogisms
			Conditions of Syllogisms
			Modal Syllogisms
			Conditional Syllogisms
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index