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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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The Mystery of Awe and Silence at the Level of the Uniqueness of Divine Essence: The Views of Avicenna, Mullā Ṣadrā, and ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭaāʾī [PDF]
حکمت معاصرIn their theological works, Muslim philosophers tend to elaborate on the unity and other attributes of the Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) after establishing its existence. In such discussions, they examine the essence (dhāt) alongside its attributes
Fatemeh Sadeqzadeh Qamsari
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Sententiae, 2019 The article is dedicated to the development of Avicennism in the Ukrainian lands, first of all, in the works of Muslim thinkers who came from the South of Ukraine during the early Modern Era. Giving the importance of the legacy of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) for
Mykhaylo Yakubovych
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Reflections on Avicenna’s impact on medicine: his reach beyond the middle east
Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020 Avicenna, to the west, and Ibn Sina to the East, is more than a historical figure often overlooked beyond his contributions to the Golden Age of Islam.
Zahra Aligabi
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Treatment of traumatic brain injury from the viewpoint of Avicenna (Ibn Sina): A historical review
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2022 Since the edifice of conventional medicine is built on the pillars of past achievements, review or re-investigate the old medical manuscripts may lead to significant achievements.
Reza Vaghebin +4 more
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Substantial motion in the light of Excellence in Avicenna' thought [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 : Avicenna is known as the great Peripatetic Philosopher in the Muslim world. He developed Peripatetic thought and added a lot to it. He is not a pure peripatetic philosopher. His thoughts of the peripatetic to the transcendent philosophy has upgraded it
مصطفی مومنی
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ChemistryOpen, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2026.Teucrium polium shows antidiabetic activity with its phytochemical composition and biological activities. The essential oil is rich in carvacrol, thymol, γ‐terpinene, and o‐cymene, while the aqueous and hydroethanolic extracts are characterized by poliumoside, verbascoside, isorhamnetin‐3‐O‐rutinoside, and apigenin‐7‐rutinoside. Antioxidant activity is
Hajar El Ouadni +10 more
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Eskiyeni, 2015 The Recital of The Bird is one of the allegorical treatises of Muslim philosopher Avicenna (also known Ibn Sīnā). As much as this short epistle is vital to unravel Avicenna’s ontological hierarchy between the God and the universe and his cosmological ...
Abdullah Başaran
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