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All courses on logic and philosophy may be helpful for this course.

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The Classical Logic, which Aristotle has established as a method and al-Farabi has re-constructed in Arabic, has had it’s perfect and most systemathical form in the works of Avicenna. The aim of this lesson is that how are classical logical issues examined in Avicenna’s book Pointers (al-Isharat) , which determining the books of after Avicenna and Avicenna wrote his logical wievs in it. To be understood of later logical Works as eligible it is aimed reading Avicenna’s Pointers, with it commentaries.

Introduction to Logic of Avicenna, Avicenna’s Logical Works, The Systematics and Place of Pointers in Avicenna’s Works, Some Considerable Commentaries of Pointers, Comentaries of Tusi and Rhazi on Pointers, In the Pointers: The Subject Matter of Logic; The Logic of Concepts: Five Universals and Definition; The Logic of Propositions: Description, Elements and Kinds of Propositions, Conversion, Contradiction and Modality in Propositions: The Theory of Syllogism; Deduction, Induction, Analogy; The Syllogism in respect to it’s matter: Five Arts