Language and Being in al-Farabi

Language and Being in al-Fārābī is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian and Islamic philosopher. It looks at the Arabic theory of the amphibolous (ambiguous, having two opposing meanings) predication of ''being'' and its genesis in the philosophy of Farabi. Stemming from Aristotle''s pros hen homonymy, ...