Light
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
light · the darkness · الظلمة · النور
in the texts
Republic
The third element needed, besides vision and color, for sight to occur; named at the end of the paragraph as 'the thing you call light'.
Though vision may be in the eyes and its possessor may try to use it, and though color be present, yet without the presence of a third thing specifically and naturally adapted to this purpose, you are aware that vision will see nothing and the colors will remain invisible.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Light and darkness, the equivocal middle term of the second worked fallacy, in which a metaphor functions as a literal predicate
light gleams and shines in the darkness, and the intellect (ʻaql) is light, so the intellect gleams and shines in the darkness.