Avicenna and Khūnajī on de re and de dicto modality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21597733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Behnam Zolghadr (0000-0002-5571-6845, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 741-755 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal for the History of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-8788 • E-ISSN: 1469-3526 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09608788.2025.2474541 |
| OpenAlex | W4409800685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Some scholars have claimed that Avicenna was the first logician to prove the Barcan formula, its converse, and the Buridan formula. However, I will show that this is not the case, and that Avicenna was not particularly concerned with implications between de re and de dicto modality. It is likely that Khūnajī was the first Arabic logician to explicitly endorse some implications between the de re and de dicto modality as well as the so-called Barcan formula, its converse, and the Buridan formula. In this paper, I have examined Khūnajī’s account of these implications
Epistemology · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · Families in Therapy and Culture · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |