The sources of Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq

1. Aristotle 3 neutral 3 citations · 2 passages

   introduction · ch. 3

   A named book invoked by title within the history of the discipline

   that he found among those who came before him nothing but the Book of the Categories (al-Maqūlāt);

2. Euclid 1 authority 1 citation

   introduction

   A named work by a named author invoked to explain the order of the discipline

   and that he was awakened to its composition and its arrangement by his study of the book of Uqlīdis on geometry.

3. Salīm al-Jazāʼirī 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

   conclusion 2 passages anchored here

   Two explicit backward references to the treatise's own earlier teaching, used as premises

   We have already drawn notice to most of their kinds in what has gone before:

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

introduction 1 source

The Arabic logical tradition of commentaries and abridgements

conception and judgment 6 sources

Aphorism on the tongue, exposition and demonstration · Miʻyār al-ʻilm · Saying on the roots of men's cognitions · The Qurʼan · The doctrine of the five universals · The geometers' doctrine of the abstracted line and point

ch. 3 16 sources

A noble prophetic tradition on God loving the servant and detesting his deed · A sermon of the Imam Ali in which the tradition is mentioned · Historical report on the rulers of Egypt · The Arabic proverbs · The Qur'anic phrase that every party rejoices in what it has · The anecdote of the thousand proofs for the existence of the Creator · The books of geometry · The books of the verifying scholars · The creedal maxim that none knows the unseen but God · The legal maxim that upon the claimant lies the evidence · The theologians' maxim that every effect must have an effecter · Verses of Abu al-Shis on the raven of separation · Verses of al-Ma'arri on thanks, deliberation and the blind astrologer · Verses of an unnamed poet on the omen, the augury and the soothsayers · Verses of an unnamed poet on the unintended favour and on profitable enmity · al-Ghazzali's dictum on the staff turned into a snake

ch. 4 7 sources

The Arabic proverbs on misfortune and on enmity to the unknown · Verse comparing a patron to the sea · Verse on the enemy's deceiving tear and the price of nobility · Verse on the keen blades and the branding-iron of abasement · al-Ghazzali's exposition of the duties of the real definition · al-Jahiz's praise of the book · al-Qamus and the works on the language

conclusion 3 sources

The named doctrine of the fallacies (al-dawr, al-muṣādarah, al-mushāghabah, al-istiqrāʼ al-nāqiṣ) · The received logic manuals that include the table, rhetoric, poetry and fallacy · Verse on the corruption of thought