Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900

Khaled El-Rouayheb

ISBN 10: 9004183191 / ISBN 13: 9789004183193

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV Jun 2010, 2010

Beschreibung

Neuware - Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV Jun 2010
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9004183191
• ISBN-13: 9789004183193
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 155 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm
• Gewicht: 602 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ph.D.(2003) in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard University. He works and has published on the history of post-Avicennan Arabic logic, and, more generally, on the intellectual history of the Islamic world in the early-modern period (1500-1800).