Open AccessOn Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories: (ch. I–IV)
Author(s) -
Н. В. Ефремова,
Т. Ибрагим
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
orientalistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0738
pISSN - 2618-7043
DOI - 10.31696/2618-7043-2020-3-2-403-427
Subject(s) - prologue , epistemology , philosophy , islam , semantics (computer science) , literature , linguistics , computer science , theology , art , programming language
The article is the first part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It shows the ways and approaches by Avicenna to revisit the epistemological status of the Categories , as well as his approach to “ontologize” and “delogicisize” the problems of categories. Also, the authors provide an analysis of how Avicenna re-worked the Aristotelian prologue (chapters 1–4), sometimes is referred to as the Pre-Predicamenta. The analysis includes as follows: semantics of various types of words, four-fold division (“ontological square”), ten-fold division and its justification.