An excellent addition to #AvicennaStudies by Fedor Benevich at #LMU on #essentialism #predication of essential attributes in #propositions 1/
He examines the #Avicennian #organon engagement with the #Aristotelian tradition on essentialism 2/
It asks the key questions of how the abstract entities or essences that constitute the world for #Avicenna map onto and define the essential features of phenomena that we encounter 3/
The discussion on predication in particular - like Alan Bäck’s earlier work - suggests ways in which the semantics of existence plays out in later #postAvicennian metaphysics 4/
Also the conceptual distinction between essential and necessary attributes is central 5/
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