TY - BOOK ID - 3301334 TI - Relational syllogisms and the history of Arabic logic, 900-1900 PY - 2010 VL - 80 80 SN - 9789004183193 9004183191 1283039117 9786613039118 9004190996 9789004190993 9781283039116 661303911X PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Syllogism KW - Islamic philosophy KW - Inference. KW - Syllogisme KW - Philosophie islamique KW - Inférence (Logique) KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Inference KW - History KW - Islamic philosophy -- History. KW - Syllogism -- History. KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Logic KW - Inférence (Logique) KW - Ampliative induction KW - Induction, Ampliative KW - Inference (Logic) KW - Argumentation KW - Reasoning KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Syllogism - History KW - Islamic philosophy - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3301334 AB - Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ER -