Keywords:
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004452398
Series Statement:
Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; v.7
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=7042442
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Principles of Citation -- I. Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Aristotelian Organon: The Context Theory in the Middle Ages -- A. Some Misconceptions Concerning the Context Theory -- B. Issues and Approaches -- II. Issues in the Greek Versions of the Context Theory -- A. Logic Versus Productive Science -- 1. 'Επιστήμη ποιητική and 'Επιστήμη θεωρητική -- 2. Ποίησις and πραξις -- Β. The Context Theory in the Greek Commentators -- 1. Logic versus Syllogistic: Ammonius -- 2. Logic, Demonstration, and Sophistic -- 3. Syllogisms, Faculties, and Truth-Values -- C. Implications of the Context Theory in the Greek Milieu -- III. The Framework of the Context Theory in Arabic Philosophy -- A. Logic, Language, and Communication -- 1. Apophantic and Non-Apophantic Discourse -- 2. The Inner and Outer Word -- 3. Inquiry, Instruction, and Contemplation -- B. Taṣawwur and Taṣdīq (Conception and Assent) -- C. Material and Formal Distinctions Among the Logical Arts -- 1. Logic as Syllogistic -- 2. The Basis for Material Distinctions -- 3. Taṣdīq and the Classification of Premises -- 4. Concluding Remarks -- IV. The Epistemological Domain of Rhetoric -- A. Rhetoric and the Logic of Assent -- 1. Rhetoric and Persuasion -- 2. Persuasion and Opinion (Ẓann) -- B. The Objects of Rhetoric -- 1. The Interplay of Universal and Particular -- 2. Rhetoric and the Categories -- C. Rhetoric and the Special Sciences -- 1. Accidental and Essential Knowledge -- 2. Rhetoric and the Knowledge of Particulars -- 3. Rhetoric and the Special Doxastic Arts -- 4. Rhetoric and Practical Wisdom -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- V. The Structures of Rhetorical Argumentation -- A. Material Aspects: The Nature of Rhetorical Premises -- 1. Probable or Praiseworthy Premises (Al-Maḥmūdāt).
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2. Widely-Accepted and Received Premises (Al-Mashhūrāt -- Al-Maqbūlāt) -- 3. Presumed Premises (Al-Maẓnūnāt) -- 4. Assent at First Glance (Fī bādiʾ al-raʾy) -- B. Modality and Rhetorical Premises -- C. The Formal Structures of Rhetoric -- 1. The Properties of Enthymematic Reasoning -- 2. The Analysis of the Types and Figures of the Enthymeme -- 3. The Example or Argument from Analogy -- 4. Concluding Remarks -- VI. The Epistemological and Psychological Foundations of Poetics -- A. Takhyīl as an Epistemological Concept -- 1. Taṣdīq and Takhyīl -- 2. Taṣawwur and Takhyīl -- B. Poetics and the Psychology of Imagination -- 1. Takhyīl and Poetic Premises -- 2. Imagination as an Apprehending Power -- 3. Imagination and Estimation (Wahm) -- 4. Concluding Remarks -- VII. The Imaginative Syllogism -- A. The Formal Structures of Poetics -- 1. The Structure of the Imaginative Syllogism -- 2. Poetic Syllogisms and Poetic Definitions -- 3. The Explanatory Function of the Poetic Syllogism -- B. The Poetic Syllogism and the Poetic Audience -- C. Poetic Syllogisms and Practical Syllogisms -- 1. Imagination as a Motive Power -- 2. Αχρασία, Imagination, and the Practical Syllogism -- 3. Poetics and Άχρασια -- Appendix to VII. The Imaginative Syllogism and Contemporary Philosophy of Language -- VIII. The Philosophical Implications of the Context Theory -- A. Recapitulation -- B. Some Implications of the Context Theory -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Arabic Terms -- Index of Greek Terms.
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