from avicenna's era up to now, various arguments have been presented for the mental existence (al-wujud al-zihni), the most important of which are ten. these arguments don't have the same purpose: some of them are used only to reject the theory of relation (al-idafah), and some engage to refute the theory of phantoms (al-ashbah). considering critically the ten arguments, this article ...

This paper is concerned with the technical implications of a certain view connecting existence to predication. This is the view that in no possible world is there a genuine relation among the nonexistents of that world or between the nonexistents and the existents! The meaning of the term ‘genuine’ here may be variously explained. On an extreme interpretation, all relations are ‘genuine’, so th...

"Ibn Sina (Arabic), also known as Avicenna (Latin) and Abu Ali Sina (Persian) was the most original and systematic Muslim philosopher. In this light he is mentioned by two celebrated historians of medieval western philosophy: A. Maurer states, "...his [ibn Sina's] philosophy is a highly personal achievement, ranking among the greatest in the history of philosophy;" and F. Copleston holds, "The ...

En el debat sobre els nacionalismes la diversitat sexual i de gènere acostuma a ser obviada. La proposta conceptual l’homonacionalisme omple aquest buit. L’homonacionalisme descriu com partir dels anys 2000 s’inclou discursivament en sí les nacions al nord global, mentre que es racialitza s’exclou l’homofòbia. esdevé així una eina complexa però útil per analitzar discursos, subjectes polítiques...

This letter proposes the fuzzy logic-based fast gain scheduling(FFGS) controller for regulation problem in nonlinear systems. It utilizes the fuzzy scheduling variable which reeects the derivative information on the original scheduling variable in order to achieve better performance than the existents.

The possibilities of depicting non-existents, depicting non-particulars and depictive misrepresentation are frequently cited as grounds for denying the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance. I first argue that these problems are really a manifestation of the more general problem of intentionality. I then show how there is a plausible solution to the general problem of intentionali...