O intelecto em Ibn Sīnā (Avicena)

Ibn Sīnā on Reductio Ad Absurdum

This paper studies the analysis of reductio ad absurdum by Ibn Sı̄nā (known to the Latin West as Avicenna), who was born in 980 in a village near the Bactrian town of Balkh on the Silk Road, and died in 1037 after a career spent moving around within the present boundaries of Iran. References to Ibn Sı̄nā’s writings are to his Arabic texts listed in the bibliography, and are given in the format pa...

Dualism of the Soul and the Body in the Philosophical System of Ibn Sīnā and Descartes

The problem of human's two domains has a significant influence on human knowledge, and since the human privilege in the universe to the other beings as well as the immateriality of the soul and so on is based on proving the soul's substance separately, it worths to search in this issue about the ideas of two Western and Islamic philosophers. Ibn Sīnā with arguments such as the "suspending man" ...

movement according to ibn sīnā and abū al-barakāt baghdādī

according to abū al-barakāt baghdādī, time and place are a priori conditions of motion; moreover, against the peripatetic philosophers, for whom time is the measure of motion, he holds that time is the measure of existence. nevertheless, he believes that we can define motion on the basis of our intuitive non-scientific concept of time and, by so doing, we can resolve the apparent circularity of...

O que é Pesquisa em Informática em Saúde?

This paper reflects the ongoing discussions among a few of the graqduate faculty at DIS/UNIFEST regarding what are valid graduate projects in Medical Informatics. This paper presents a taxonomy of academic (cientific) researches in Medical Informatics, which reflects our understanding of the international production in the area, as well as, current research and publication practicesin the área,...

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