Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments

Lanham: Lexington Books (2022)
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In his magnum opus, The Healing, Avicenna took four Aristotelian arguments and used them to prove a very un-Aristotelian conclusion: that the cosmos is both created and eternal. This book explains how Avicenna used his distinctive understanding of possibility and necessity to do so.

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