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Le kitāb al-Taḥlīl d'Alfarabi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Dominique Mallet
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Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III, Département d'études arabes et islamiques, Domaine universitaire, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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Abstract

In a departure from the tradition of the Neoplatonic commentators of the Organon, the sequence of summaries in the “Bratislava series” insert two treatises between the Prior Analytics and the Posterior Analytics, namely the Resolution (kitāb al-Taḥlīl) and the Sophistical Refutations. And even though the Taḥlīl is concerned with Book 2 of the Topics, it does not deal with dialectic. Instead, it comments on the summary of the Topics that belongs to the Prior Analytics (I, 27–30), while “completing” it. The contents of kitāb al-Taḥlīl and the different titles that the fahāris give it (e.g., fīiktisăb al-muqaddimāt), lead one to realize that it is an addition to the Prior Analytics offering a theory concerning the generation of the premisses of the syllogism, something that may have appeared to Alfarabi as missing from Kitāb al-Qiyās.

Rompant avec la tradition des commentateurs néoplatoniciens de l'Organon, la succession des copies dans la “série de Bratislava” insère entre les Premiers et les Seconds Analytiques les deux traités de la Résolution (kitāb al-Tahlīl) et des Réfutations sophistiques. Alors même qu'il suit Topiques Il, le Taḥlīl ne porte pas sur la dialectique; il commente, le “complétant,” le résumé des Topiques appartenant aux Premiers Analytiques (I, 27–30). Son contenu, ainsi que les titres différents que lui attribuent les fahāris (par ex. fi iktisāb al-muqaddimāt), conduiraient à y reconnaître une addition aux Pr. An. proposant une théorie de la génération des prémisses du syllogisme qui aura paru à Alfarabi manquer au kitāb al-Qiyās.

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