Meaning and Definition: Scepticism and Semantics in Twelfth‐Century Arabic Philosophy.
The theory of essential definitions is a fundamental anti‐sceptic element of the Aristotelian‐Avicennian epistemology. In this theory, when we distinguish the genus and the specific differentia of a given essence we thereby acquire a scientific understanding of it. The aim of this article is to anal...
| Published in: | Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 72 - 109 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2022
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