Author	Shehaby, Nabil. author
Title	The Propositional Logic of Avicenna [electronic resource] : A Translation from al-Shifฤ{129}สพ: al-Qiyฤ{129}s with Introduction, Commentary and Glossary / by Nabil Shehaby
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1973
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2624-6
Descript	320 p. online resource

The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with conยญ ditional propositions and syllogisms. The text is that of A vicenna (Abu represents his views on the subject as they were held throughout his life

Translationโ{128}{148}Al-Qiy?s Book V -- One On Conditional Propositions and Their Types -- Two On Separative-Conditional Propositions -- Three Onthe Kinds of Combinations in Pure Conditional -- Four On Explaining the Meaning of the Universal, the Particular, the Indefinite and the Singular [Connective-] Conditional Proposition -- Five On the Universal Negative in [Connective-] Conditional Propositions -- Book VI -- One On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective-Conditional Propositions Arranged in Three Figures -- Two On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective and Separative Propositions -- Three On the Syllogisms Compounded of Separative Propositions -- Four Onthe Syllogisms Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions -- Five On the Three Figures of the Syllogisms Compounded of a Predicative and a Conditional Proposition Where the Predicative Shares [Either Its Subject or Its Predicate] with [the Subject or the Predicate] of the Antecedent (of the Conditional Proposition) -- Six On the Three Figures of the Divided Syllogism -- Book VII -- One On Equipollence and Opposition Between Connective-Conditional Propositions -- Two On the Opposition Between Separative-Conditional Propositions and Separative- and Connective-Conditional Propositions and the State of Their Equipollence -- Three On the Conversion of the Connective Proposition -- Book VIII -- One On the Definition of the Exceptive Syllogism -- Two On the Enumeration of the Exceptive Syllogisms [which have a Separative-Conditional Premiss] -- Book IX -- One On Explaining that Exceptive Syllogisms Cannot Be Completed Except by Conjunctive Syllogisms -- Commentary -- Book V -- Book VI -- Book VII -- Book VIII -- Book IX