Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations
This paper endeavors to look into the physiognomical syllogism as occurring in Avicenna’s different summae and to tentatively discuss possible reasons for its select occurrence in some of them and not others, as well as possible implications of this selectiveness. These occurrences are in principle...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:methodos_8676 https://doi.org/10.4000/methodos.8676 urn:doi:10.4000/methodos.8676 en https://journals.openedition.org/methodos/8676 2022-05-31T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/i9r1 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations Methodos Savoirs textes langage - UMR 8163 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1769-7379 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1626-0600 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/methodos Schmitt, Jens Ole Aristote Avicenne (Ibn Sīnā) syllogisme physiognomonique physiognomonie traits de caractère animaux Polémon de Laodicée Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Physiognomica Aristotle Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) physiognomical syllogism physiognomics animal character traits Physiognomica Polemon Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī This paper endeavors to look into the physiognomical syllogism as occurring in Avicenna’s different summae and to tentatively discuss possible reasons for its select occurrence in some of them and not others, as well as possible implications of this selectiveness. These occurrences are in principle reducible to two different textual versions. Further, it will be argued that the inclusion of this syllogism might be connected with a certain nearness of the respective works to Aristotle, due to an assumed personal disfavoring of this syllogism by Avicenna. However, there is also some evidence for Avicenna’s usage of the ps.-Aristotelian Physiognomics. Cet article s’attache à examiner le syllogisme physiognomonique tel qu’il apparaît dans les différentes summae d’Avicenne et tente de soulever les raisons qui ont pu motiver sa présence dans certaines et non dans d’autres, ainsi que les implications qui pourraient découler de cette sélectivité. Ces occurrences sont en principe réductibles à deux versions textuelles différentes. De plus, nous soutiendrons que l’inclusion de ce syllogisme pourrait être conditionnée par la proximité des ouvrages respectifs à ceux d’Aristote, en raison d’une défaveur personnelle supposée envers ce syllogisme de la part d’Avicenne. Cependant, il existe également des preuves qu’Avicenne a utilisé la Physiognomica pseudo-aristotélicienne. |
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This paper endeavors to look into the physiognomical syllogism as occurring in Avicenna’s different summae and to tentatively discuss possible reasons for its select occurrence in some of them and not others, as well as possible implications of this selectiveness. These occurrences are in principle reducible to two different textual versions. Further, it will be argued that the inclusion of this syllogism might be connected with a certain nearness of the respective works to Aristotle, due to an assumed personal disfavoring of this syllogism by Avicenna. However, there is also some evidence for Avicenna’s usage of the ps.-Aristotelian Physiognomics. |
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Schmitt, Jens Ole |
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Schmitt, Jens Ole |
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Schmitt, Jens Ole |
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Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations |
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Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations |
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Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations |
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Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations |
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Preferring Formal Language over the Face? Avicenna on the Physiognomical Syllogism. Some Observations |
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