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484The Ki to Strength in the Martial ArtsIn M. Holowchak & Terry Todd (eds.), Philosophical Reflections on Physical Strength, Mellen Press. pp. 91-114. 2010.
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277Insights of AvicennaIn A. Storck (ed.), Aristotelis analytica posteriora: estudos acerca da rexepacao medieval dos segundos analiticos, Linus Editores. pp. 111-148. 2009.
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214Avicenna the CommentatorIn Lloyd A. Newton (ed.), Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, . pp. 31-71. 2008.
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152Islamic LogicIn S. Rahman, T. Street & H. Tahiri (eds.), The Unity of Science in the Islamic Tradition, . 2008.
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138Scotus on the consistency of the incarnation and the trinityVivarium 36 (1): 83-107. 1998.Medieval theologians discussed the logical structure of reduplicative propositions in the midst of their discussions of the Incarnation and the Trinity. Aquinas has the usual medieval analyzes of reduplicative propositions: the specificative and the strictly reduplicative. But neither analysis resolves successfully the problems of the consistency of the statements about God while avoiding making the Trinity or the Incarnation a merely accidental feature of Him. However, Scotus introduces another…Read more
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116Mistakes of reason: Practical reasoning and the fallacy of accidentPhronesis 54 (2): 101-135. 2009.For Aristotle the fallacy of accident arises from mistakes about being per accidens and not from accidental predication. Mistakes in perceiving per accidens come from our judgements about being per accidens and so commit that fallacy. Practical syllogisms have the same formal structure as being and perceiving per accidens . Moreover perceiving per accidens typically provides the minor premise for the practical syllogism as it makes it possible for us to know singular propositions, especially tho…Read more
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86Avicenna’s HermeneuticsVivarium 49 (1-3): 9-25. 2011.Like Plato, Aristotle uses dialectic to interpret and analyze ordinary discourse as well as to ascend to the first principles of philosophy and science. At the same time he says that it is intellect ( noûs ) that apprehends the first principle. With al-Fārābī and Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), dialectic becomes relegated to dealing with ordinary language. For them demonstration in an ideal language from principles apprehended by the intellect suffices for the philosopher
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75Aristotle's theory of predicationBrill. 2000.This book claims that Aristotle followed an aspect theory of predication.
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74Avicenna’s Theory of SuppositionVivarium 51 (1-4): 81-115. 2013.Although he does not have an explicit theory of supposition as is found in the works of Latin medieval philosophers, Avicenna has two doctrines giving something equivalent: the threefold distinction of quiddity, corresponding to a division of simple, personal and material supposition, and his analyses of truth conditions for categorical propositions, where sentential context determines in part the reference of their terms. While he does address which individuals are being referred to by the univ…Read more
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72F. W. Zimmermann, "Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 396. 1983.
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67Aquinas on the IncarnationNew Scholasticism 56 (2): 127-145. 1982.IN THIS PAPER THE AUTHOR DEALS WITH AQUINAS’ SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM, WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF THE INCARNATION IS CONSISTENT. HE FIRST SHOWS WHY THERE IS A PROBLEM OF CONSISTENCY WITH THIS DOCTRINE, GIVEN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN BELIEFS. HE THEN CLAIMS THAT AQUINAS HAS TWO SOLUTIONS, AND THAT BOTH FAIL: THE FIRST SOLUTION, AS SCOTUS ALSO OBSERVES, DOES NOT RESOLVE THE APPARENT INCONSISTENCY, AND THE OTHER DEPENDS ON MAKING HUMANITY ACCIDENTAL TO CHRIST, AND HENCE ON ABANDONING THE ORTHODOX POSITION
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64On reduplication: logical theories of qualificationE.J. Brill. 1996."On Reduplication is a study of the logical properties of reduplicative propositions, that is, of propositions having qualifications, like 'Christ "qua God is a ...
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63What is being qua being?Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 82 (1): 37-58. 2004.I offer truth conditions for propositions about being qua being in Aristotle's philosophy. I show that in general Aristotle views expressions of the form "qua S" in "S qua S is P" (or "S is P qua S") as making a claim not about the subject "S", but about the predication of "P" of "S". I develop necessary and sufficient truth conditions for propositions of the form "S qua S is P". Finally, I show how this analysis satisfactorily covers what Aristotle says about being qua being in the Metaphysics.
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62Aristotelian necessitiesHistory and Philosophy of Logic 16 (1): 89-106. 1995.In his Parts of Animals, Aristotle distinguishes three modes of the necessary.However, it is not clear just what these three modes are.Nor is it clear how this passage fits with other texts where A...
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58Towards A Western Philosophy of the Eastern Martial ArtsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 6 (1): 19-28. 1979.
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54Syllogisms with reduplication in AristotleNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (4): 453-458. 1982.
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54The Paper World of Bernard SuitsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 35 (2): 156-174. 2008.No abstract
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40How the Fallacy of Accident Got Its NameVivarium 53 (2-4): 142-169. 2015._ Source: _Volume 53, Issue 2-4, pp 142 - 169 I offer an explanation of why the fallacy of “accident” is so called. By ‘accident’ here, Aristotle does not mean accidental predication but being _per accidens_. Understood in this way, the fallacy of accident can be analyzed in terms of the rules that Aristotle gives for being _per accidens_. The fallacy of accident lost the original justification for its name in the late Greek period. It became associated with accidental predication and not with b…Read more
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29Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (2): 437-438. 1995.Paul Spade has always been a prolific and accurate translator of medieval texts. Here he provides the service of translating some important medieval texts on the problem of universals: the Isagoge by Porphyry, and selections from Boethius's second commentary on the Isagoge, from the Glosses on the Isagoge by Abelard, from the Ordinatio of Scotus, and from the Ordinatio of Ockham. Spade provides some helpful notes, an introduction, and glossary, although I find this material somewhat sparse. A no…Read more
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