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The logicians1 mention

Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)

So the scholars of logic hastened to gather what they found suitable for the guiding of the intellect and its schooling, in the way of rules, and to set out their arrangement and the manner of working by what they require, so that whoever is not secure against error in his disputations, his syllogisms, his inferences and his demonstrations might be saved by observing them — since he has need of th …

conception and judgment ¶ · printed page 24

in the texts

On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

Philosophers upholding the principle of bivalence in disjunctive propositions, whose rule Epicurus rejects to avoid conceding necessity.

for whereas they have handed down that in all disjunctions in which "either yes or no" is set, one or the other is true, he feared that, if anything of this kind were granted — "Epicurus will either be alive tomorrow or will not" — one or the other would become necessary;

book 1 ¶

al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

Practitioners of logic, defined by their essential concern with meanings and accidental concern with expressions.

And just as the grammarian, though his purpose is the correcting of expressions, also looks into meanings in order to correct them — the grammarian looks into expressions essentially and by the first intention and looks into meanings accidentally and by the second intention, while the logician looks into meanings essentially and by the first intention and looks into expressions accidentally and by …

the book of happiness ¶ · printed page 57

Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq20th Century · Arabic

The practitioners of the art of logic, cited both for their technical definitions of the universals and for their assembling of the rules that guide the intellect

So the scholars of logic hastened to gather what they found suitable for the guiding of the intellect and its schooling, in the way of rules, and to set out their arrangement and the manner of working by what they require, so that whoever is not secure against error in his disputations, his syllogisms, his inferences and his demonstrations might be saved by observing them — since he has need of th …

conception and judgment ¶ · printed page 24

A nicety — since the logicians qualified the attribute (moving) with the condition (by will), there drop out those whose movements and all of whose deeds follow the will of another

conception and judgment ¶ · printed page 19

These are the technical terms of the men of logic and their examples of them:

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