"The Kitāb al-Madḫal ("Book of the Isagoge") is crucial for anyone who aims to fully understand (Avicenna's (d. 1037) theory of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics. Also, it is the only work of the Šifā' to have been entirely available in Latin …
This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna's (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʼ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma cod…
In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal expressions in terms of predicates. But, as in th…
This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication.
This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The cont…
