Post-Avicennan Logicians on the Subject Matter of Logic

Some Thirteenth- And Fourteenth-Century Discussions

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ID20399953
AuthorsKhaled El-Rouayheb (0000-0001-7229-0009, Harvard University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume22
Issue1
Pages69-90
Publication date2012-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArabic Sciences and Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-4239 • E-ISSN: 1474-0524
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1017/s0957423911000105
OpenAlexW2009982465
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited2

In the thirteenth century, the influential logician Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī (d. 1248) departed from the Avicennan view that the subject matter of logic is “second intentions”. For al-Khūnajī, the subject matter of logic is “the objects of conception and assent”. His departure elicited intense and sometimes abstruse discussions in the course of subsequent centuries. Prominent supporters of Khūnajī's view on the subject matter of logic included Kātibī (d. 1277), Ibn Wāṣil (d. 1298) and Taftāzānī (d. 1390). Defenders of Avicenna's view included Ṭūsī (d. 1274), Samarqandī (d. 1303) and Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1365). This article presents the outline of the development of this discussion down to the end of the fourteenth century and attempts to reconstruct the major arguments of both sides

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