Abu Nasr al-Farabi · Philosophy

Logic and Language: The Grammar of Thought

al-Farabi&rsquo;s pioneering philosophy of logic: logic as a <em>universal grammar of reasoning</em> that governs thought in any language, standing to the intellect as grammar stands to speech; the ladder of arguments from demonstration down to rhetoric and poetry; and his lifelong labour on Aristotle&rsquo;s <em>Organon</em> and the harmony of Plato and Aristotle.

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You learned that al-Farabi treated logic as a universal grammar of thought - rules that guard the intellect from error in any language, as grammar guards speech in one - and ranked the arts of argument from demonstration (certainty) down through dialectic and rhetoric to poetics; and that he devoted himself to Aristot…

Leads to Ibn Sina (Avicenna).

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