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  title info:
    title: Language and being in al-Fārābī
    sub title: the philosophy of Taškīk
  title info:
    title: Philosophy of Taškīk
  name:
    name part: Ansari, Rosabel P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 'Language and Being in al-Farabi' is a monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian, and Islamic philosopher. Asking questions concerning the relationship between language, meaning, and being, Ansari explores the history of Greek philosophy in Arabic, and its development into the early modern Islamic context.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Lis of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Citation, Translation, and Transliteration -- Introduction: Exploring the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics -- From Aristotle's Pros Hen Homonymy to Fārābī's Amphibolous Terms -- Essentialism -- Fārābī, the Greek Sources, and the Islamicate Context -- Structure of the Book -- 1 Reassessing the History of a Philosophical Concept -- The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being' -- The Translation of Taškīk: Competing Options
  table of contents: Amphibolous Predication in the Philosophy of Fārābī -- The Book of Letters and the Unity of Fārābī's Metaphysics -- Conclusion -- 2 Language, Intelligibles, and Being -- The Tripartite Relationship Between Language, Intelligibles, and Being -- Primary and Secondary Intelligibles -- Detachment and Composition -- Derived Terms and Primary Examples -- The Noetic and Ontological Priority -- The Ontological Status of Intelligibles -- Conclusion -- 3 The Theory of Amphibolous Predication -- Homonymy in Aristotle and Porphyry -- Fārābī's Theory of Amphibolous Terms
  table of contents: The Relations Between the Meanings of Amphibolous Terms -- Modulated Univocals -- Amphibolous Terms and Transcategorials -- The Designation 'Amphibolous' and the Question of Greek Origins -- 'Amphibolous' Terms in the Arabic and Islamic Context -- Conclusion -- 4 The Theory of What Is (al-Mawǧūd) -- Conceptual Vocabulary in Greek, Arabic, and English -- To On, Esti, and Al-Mawǧūd -- Essential Predication -- Being, Not Existing -- Al-wuǧūd -- The Baghdad Aristotelians and the Impact of the Graeco-Arabic Translators -- 5 The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being' -- 'Being' as an Amphibolous Term
  table of contents: The Primary Predication of 'Being' -- Reconciling the Two Perspectives: Realization of Quiddity -- What Is Best Known to Us and What Is Best Known By Nature -- Conclusion -- 6 Emanation and the Ranking of Beings -- Essentialism -- Emanation -- The Derivation of Being-Ness From Being -- Being-ness: Differentia, Quiddity, and Subsistence -- Being Simpliciter and Detached Theology -- Emanation Revisited -- Substantification -- The Meaning and Function of Emanationist Language -- Alexander of Aphrodisias and Efficient Causality -- The Stakes -- Conclusion -- 7 The Refutation of Parmenides
  table of contents: Parmenidean Monism -- Fārābī's Knowledge of Parmenides -- Fārābī's Refutation of Parmenides -- Amphibolous Predication, Monism, and the Loss of Meaning -- Conclusion -- 8 The Fārābian Legacy of Amphibolous Predication in the Post-Classical Period -- Amphibolous Predication in Avicenna -- Taškīk as 'Amphiboly': The Fārābian Legacy in the Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries -- Amphibolous Predication and the Relationship Between Logic and Metaphysics in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Select Works -- Index of Concepts
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Rosabel P. Ansari.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fārābī
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Arab
  subject:
    topic: Islamic philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie islamique
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie arabe
  subject:
    topic: Langage et langues
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: History & Surveys
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Religious
  subject:
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Islamic philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B753.F34 A5 2025
  classification: 181/.6
  identifier: 9780197808092
  identifier: 0197808093
  identifier: 9780197808078
  identifier: 0197808077
  identifier: 9780197808085
  identifier: 0197808085
  identifier: 9780197808061
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250813
    record change date: 20260319210530.5
    record identifier: in00005728786
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng