Ibn S?n? on Demonstration: A Logico-Epistemological Framework of Ibn S?n?’s Philosophy of Science

Ibn S?n? onDemonstration: A Logico-Epistemological Framework of Ibn S?n?’s Philosophy ofScience - hardcover & Dust jacket

Author: Amran Muhammad

Publisher: Islamicand Strategic Studies Institute(ISSI) Malaysia

ISBN: 9789671131213

Price: RM88.00

Pages: 84pp

Weight: 0.245kg

Ibn S?n?'sconception of demonstration may be divided into two parts. We call the firstpart the nature of demonstration and the second part the structure ofdemonstration. In order to understand demonstration, we ought to look into theconstitutive elements of scientific knowledge from a micro perspective. For inthe nature of demonstration, we actually deal with basic components that makeup knowledge, such as conception and assent, definition and description,propositions and syllogisms. From these micro-components of demonstration, wemove to the macro-perspective of demonstrative science, attending to it fromthe structural point of view. The structure of demonstration thus incluesprinciples, subjects and the problems all of which serves as plillars fordemonstrative science.