Demonstration
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demonstration · burhān · البرهان · برهان · al-burhān · al-barāhīn · al-barāhīn al-qāṭiʻah · al-dalīl · al-muqaddimāt · al-qiyāsāt
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Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Burhān, conclusive proof, whose absence defines both the topics that should not be pursued and the ground on which disputation can persist indefinitely.
Now disputation is carried through only in a place of disagreement upon which no conclusive demonstration stands and over which no radiant light rises, so that the contenders pull at the ends of the discourse.
and to plunge into what no Qur'an has conveyed and no demonstration has established is excess upon the earth and corruption.
so what you have mentioned is not established so long as its demonstration is not made plain.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Demonstrative method, both as one of two routes to knowledge and as the announced genre of the chapters on language and on the soul-body relation.
And these items of knowledge that have been mentioned are apprehended either through ascetic discipline (*riyāḍah*) and striving and the purifying of the thoughts and the cleansing of the minds — as with the prophets, the apostles, the perfect solitaries (2), the renunciants and the devout — or through the composition of premises, syllogisms and demonstrations.
On the demonstrations which the sages have uttered concerning the relation of the rational soul to the body and its parts;
On establishing the demonstration of the need for the words used among men
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Rational proof, named at the outset as establishing the obligation of praising God.
The fittest thing the tongue may utter, and whose obligation is established by the blazing rays of demonstration, is praise to Him who deserves praise for the permanence of His majesty and exaltation, and thanks to Him who merits thanks for the completeness of His blessings and bounties:
Stromata
The logical concept of proof proceeding from agreed or self-evident premises to a conclusion.
while demonstration makes clear all three—whether it is, and what it is, and why it is.
And common to all the things said to be discovered is demonstration, which is a discourse confirming, out of certain things, some other thing.
" Is not their definition more obscure than the very name, needing another demonstration whether it is true?
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Certain proof, the wholly true kind of syllogism, ranked as the first purpose of the logical art and the noblest of its books, with the other books serving as introductions or defences.
And he made fourth the book which he named the Demonstration, which is Anūlūṭīqā the Second, in which he taught the canons of the syllogisms in which no deception occurs and in which that is not possible, these being the certain ones.
And the noblest of these books is the Book of Demonstration, because it is the first thing intended;
Something of this wisdom of nature may be taken as a plain demonstration by whoever reflects upon the members of the body.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Proof properly so called, distinguished from mere exposition and named among the operations that logical training secures
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 …
and the breast's coolness would come back with certainty, the soul inhabited by stillness, in no need of composing syllogism and demonstration or of compiling the arts of speech and exposition.
every man has a tongue, and every tongue an exposition, but not every tongue has a spearhead, nor every exposition a demonstration;