Le kitāb al-Taḥlīl d'Alfarabi

Abstract

In a departure from the tradition of the Neoplatonic commentators of the Organon , the sequence of summaries in the “Bratislava series” insert two treatises between the Prior Analytics and the Posterior Analytics , namely the Resolution ( kitāb al-Taḥlīl ) and the Sophistical Refutations . And even though the Taḥlīl is concerned with Book 2 of the Topics , it does not deal with dialectic. Instead, it comments on the summary of the Topics that belongs to the Prior Analytics (I, 27–30), while “completing” it. The contents of kitāb al-Taḥlīl and the different titles that the fahāris give it (e.g., fīiktisăb al-muqaddimāt ), lead one to realize that it is an addition to the Prior Analytics offering a theory concerning the generation of the premisses of the syllogism, something that may have appeared to Alfarabi as missing from Kitāb al-Qiyās .

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