From Focal Homonymy to the Ambiguity of Existence (tashkīk al-wujūd): Avicenna’s Reception and Revision of Aristotle’s Categorial Ontology
This paper argues that both Aristotle’s theory of the so-called focal homonymy of “being” and Avicenna’s corresponding theory of the ambiguity of “existence” (tashkīk al-wujūd) are meant to address the same dilemma of categorial ontology, but by recourse to different solutions. Avicenna retains Aris...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Oriens
Year: 2023, Volume: 51, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 327-366 |
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Avicenna
B focal homonymy (aph’ henos kai pros hen) B ambiguity (tashkīk) B Existence B Aristotle |
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