analogy in farabi's thought
نویسندگان
چکیده
thinkers and philosophers have constantly benefited from different approaches of reasoning to explore and justify their ideas. theses reasoning approaches are considered as the principle instruments in speculative activities of the thinkers. to this end to achieve the procedure of thinking and the way philosophers achieve objectives, it is necessary to recognize their reasoning strategies. this article intends to survey on the position of analogy in the thinking of farabi, and to show how he used this type of analogy as one of his basic reasoning methods in exploring his ideas and thoughts.
منابع مشابه
Analogy in Farabi's Thought
Thinkers and philosophers have constantly benefited from different approaches of reasoning to explore and justify their ideas. Theses reasoning approaches are considered as the principle instruments in speculative activities of the thinkers. To this end to achieve the procedure of thinking and the way philosophers achieve objectives, it is necessary to recognize their reasoni...
متن کاملA Review of Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
1954. To be sure, Ball saw the appeal of the Korea, Munich, and dominochain analogies, but in each, he also saw serious weaknesses; more important, he felt he saw deeper similarities to the situation the French had faced, which led him to his gloomy but accurate predictions of what would happen to American troops if they went in. I found this discussion enlightening, but it left me wondering, W...
متن کاملVirtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought
The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...
متن کاملAnalogy
Analogy is a special kind of similarity (see Goldstone & Son, Chap. 2). Two situations are analogous if they share a common pattern of relationships among their constituent elements even though the elements themselves differ across the two situations. Typically, one analog, termed the source or base, is more familiar or better understood than the second analog, termed the target. This asymmetry...
متن کاملAnalogy in Decision Making
In the context of decision making under uncertainty, I formalize the concept of analogy: an Analogy between two decision problems is a mapping that transforms one problem into the other while preserving the problems structure. After identifying the basic structure of a decision problem, I introduce the concepts of Analogical Reasoning Operator and of Analogical Reasoning Preference. The former...
متن کاملAnalogy in Context
Context appears in two forms in analogy. First, there is the context in which the analogy is performed. Second, each statement being compared is done so within the context of each analogue's overall description. By explicitly taking context into account, we can provide a more robust account of analogy. Central to this account is that each element of an analogue's description has an identifiable...
متن کاملمنابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
international journal of political scienceجلد ۱، شماره ۲، صفحات ۴۷-۶۷
میزبانی شده توسط پلتفرم ابری doprax.com
copyright © 2015-2023