This section 9.3 of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Qiyās is a commentary on sections 25 and 26 of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics i, pages 41b36–43a19. NB the parallel passage in Ibn Sı̄nā’s Burhān iii.2, p. 136ff (Badawi). The paper below is what Wikipedia would call a stub. I will add and correct as time allows. I make the paper available now because it contains a complete translation of Qiyās section 9.3, which is a...

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The diagrammatic representation by "square-and-strips" used to illustrate and solve problems linked to conditional probability distributions is reinterpreted exclusively in terms of liquids in water tanks and applied to a new domain, namely deductive inferences under uncertainty. The isomorphism between the physical constraints on the capacity of the tank and its subdivisions and elementary law...

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objects are simply different in kind from ordinary objects: the latter are not the kind of thing that could encode properties; the former are not the kind of thing that could be concrete. Moreover, abstract objects necessarily fail to exemplify the properties of ordinary objects— they necessarily fail to have a shape, they necessarily fail to have a texture, they necessarily fail to reflect lig...

1. I n t r o d u c t i o n Informally, a disposition is a proposition which is preponderantly, but not necessarily always, true. Simple examples of dispositions are: Smoking is addictive, exercise is good for your health, long sentences are more difficult to parse than short sentences, overeating causes obesity, Trudi is always right, etc. Dispositions play a central role in human reasoning, si...