The Propositional Logic of Avicenna: A Translation from al-Shifāʾ: al-Qiyās with Introduction, Commentary and Glossary

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
On the Definition of the Exceptive Syllogism....Pages 183-192
On the Enumeration of the Exceptive Syllogisms [Which have a Separative Conditional Premiss]....Pages 193-199
On Explaining that Exceptive Syllogisms Cannot be Completed Except by Conjunctive Syllogisms....Pages 203-211
On Conditional Propositions and Their Types....Pages 35-43
On Separative-Conditional Propositions....Pages 44-52
On the Kinds of Combinations in Pure Conditional Propositions 1 and in the Conditional Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions....Pages 53-60
On Explaining the Meaning of the Universal, the Particular, the Indefinite and the Singular [Connective-]Conditional Proposition....Pages 61-75
On the Universal Negative in [Connective-]Conditional Propositions....Pages 76-87
On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective-Conditional Propositions Arranged in Three Figures....Pages 91-100
On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective and Separative Propositions....Pages 101-117
On the Syllogisms Compounded of Separative Propositions....Pages 118-123
On the Syllogisms Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions....Pages 124-137
On the Three Figures of the Syllogisms Compounded of a Predicative and a Conditional Proposition where the Predicative Shares [Either its Subject or its Predicate] with [the Subject or the Predicate] of the Antecedent (of the Conditional Proposition)....Pages 138-151
On the Three Figures of the Divided Syllogism....Pages 152-160
On Equipollence and Opposition Between Connective-Conditional Propositions....Pages 163-170
On the Opposition Between Separative- and Connective-Conditional Propositions and the State of Their Equipollence....Pages 171-179
On the Conversion of the Connective Proposition....Pages 180-180
Back Matter....Pages 215-295