Studies in the History of Arabic Logic

Front Cover
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964 - Philosophy - 108 pages

From inside the book

 

5 pages matching Apodictics in this book

Where's the rest of this book?

Results 1-3 of 5

Contents

Introduction II
11
A Brief Account
13
AlFārābī on Logical Tradition
21

9 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

Studies in the History of Arabic Logic
Nicholas Rescher
No preview available - 2012
Studies in the History of Arabic Logic
Nicholas Rescher
No preview available - 2012
Studies in the History of Arabic Logic
Nicholas Rescher
No preview available - 1963

Common terms and phrases

A. N. Prior absolute proposition Abū Bishr Mattā Abu-'l-Şalt al-Fārābi al-Khwarizmi's al-Kindi al-Marwazi Alexander of Aphrodisias Anal Analytica Apodictics Arabic logic Arabic logicians Arabic text Arabic translations Arabischen Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's logic assertoric assertoric propositions attributive Averroes Avicenna Boethius books of logic called century Christian commentaries conclusion conjunctive conditional construed D. M. Dunlop discourses disjunctive conditional disjunctive propositions edition Encyclopedia example existence Fārābi Farabian future contingents Geschichte Greek logic ibn al-Muqaffa ibn Yunus Ibn Zur'ah Interpretatione Isagoge Islam Kitāb Kneale Latin leastly logical Organon logical studies logical treatises major premiss matter Max Meyerhof mean minor miracles modal syllogisms Muḥammad ibn Muslim Spain necessarily necessary necessity negative Nicholas Rescher Organon particular Pittsburgh Poetica Posterior Analytics predicate Prior Analytics quantity regarding religious-teaching Rescher Rhetorica scholar School of Baghdad sciences species statement Stoic syllogistic Syriac teacher teaching thing tradition true or false truth universal affirmative

About the author (1964)

Born in Germany, Nicholas Rescher moved to the United States with his parents in 1939 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. He attended Queens College in New York City and he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1951. Rescher served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954 and was employed by the Rand Corporation from 1954 to 1956. He resumed his academic career in 1957 and in 1961 joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, where he is now Research Professor of Philosophy. He played a major role in propelling Pittsburgh into the very top rank among graduate schools in philosophy in the United States. Rescher is the most prolific living American philosophical author, as the list of his books in print reveals. He is also the founding editor of three major philosophical journals: American Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Public Affairs Quarterly. Approaching philosophy with a solid background in mathematics and science, he has also specialized in the history of philosophy, with a doctoral dissertation and early articles on Leibniz and, later, with pioneering scholarship on medieval Arabic logic. Rescher's experiences led him to seek practical applications for his philosophical expertise, and he ventured beyond academic philosophy to draw upon empirical research as well as logical method to produce significant works in social thought. He has also sought to formulate a coherent philosophical system in the great tradition. His thinking has moved in the direction of philosophical idealism as he increasingly emphasized the role of mind in constituting its objects.

Bibliographic information

TitleStudies in the History of Arabic Logic
AuthorNicholas Rescher
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 1964
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedAug 28, 2008
ISBN0608308226, 9780608308227
Length108 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / Logic
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan