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The translation of Avicenna’s "commentary” on Aristotle’s Categories, Al-Maqūlāt (Part One, Volume Two of Aš-Šhifāʼ), is given here with explanatory notes. Avicenna does not paraphrase the text. Rather, as he states, he comments upon what the correct doctrines are. He offers original doctrines on such topics as paronymy, the ontological square in Categories 2, predication, the antepredicamental rule, the number of the categories, distinction of primary and first substance, an account of relation, as opposed to relationship, the ontology of mathematical objects, and the predication of contraries. Avicenna uses and refers to these doctrines in his scientific works, particularly in his metaphysics.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 

The Aim of the CATEGORIES 

Synonymy, Homonymy, Paronymy 

Being ‘Said Of’ and Being ‘In’

The Definition of Accident

Connections Between Being ‘Said of’ and ‘Being in’ 

Do Substance and Accident Have Modes?

Part Two

The Categories

Is Accident a Category?

Views on the Number of the Categories 

The Adequacy of the Categories

The State of the Number of the Categories 

Part Three

Substance - First, Second, and Third

First and Second and Third Substance

The Descriptions of Substance and its Propria

The Beginning of the Account about Quantity 

Part Four 

The Other Division for the Quantum, and the Quantum Per Accidens 

The Propria of the Quantum

The Divisions of the Relatum 

The Propria of the Relatum

The Category of the Relatum

Part Five 

The [Definitional] Characterization of Quality and ist Primary Divisions 

The Four Species of Quality

States and Powers

Objections about Species Having a Relationship to Power and Impotence

Passive Qualities and Passions 

The Solution of the Remaining Objections

 

Part Six 

The Species of the Fourth Genus of Quality

Objections Concerning the Fourth Genus of Quality

Quale and Quality 

Quale and Relatum 

The “Where” [Place] and the “When” [Time] 

The Rest of the Ten Categories

Part Seven 

 [Mutual] Opposites

Objections Concerning Opposition

Judgments and Propria in [Mutual] Contraries

The Prior and the Posterior

Index 

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