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ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT

Our purpose now is to give a clear outline of the major ideas in the first part of lsharat wat-Tanbfhat. No defense or refutation of any of these ideas will be given. Neither time nor space permits that. So let us attempt a brief exposition of Ibn Sina’s views in the simplest language possible. For this purpose we will draw upon much material from his other works. in order to understand and pull together his logical system.

We wish to mention that, even though we feel that most of the difficulties of the work have been delineated, there remain some for which we have not found solutions – these are specifically some of the sources referred to by lbn Sina.

CONCEPTION AND ASSENT – Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics

lbn S-ma emphasizes that knowledge is of two types: taawwur (conception, picturing, form-grasping, imaging) and tasdiq (declara­tive phrase. 18 i.e., true or false: a relation in the mind, of correspondence between the concept and the thing for which the concept stands,” i.e., truth:20 assent that the relation of correspon­dence between the concept and the nature it represents is true” – it is in this last sense that we will be using the term as lbn Sina seems to be doing for the most part).

Conception is the grasping of an object without any kind of judgment – it is this grasped object which we call “concept. Concepts are either simple, single or composite. A simple concept is one in which there are no parts, such as the concept “God” -“God”, according to Ibn Sina, is a concept that represents a simple nature. A single concept is one that may or may not have parts, but was it to have parts, these parts could not stand alone as long as they are parts of this concept. A simple concept is a single one, but the converse is not true. Examples of a single concept are: “human being,” “triangle” and “angel.” Finally, a composite concept is one in which there is at least one single concept as a part of it. This is exemplified by the concept “mortal rational animal,”

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