General philosophy

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akrasia

Philosophy; General philosophy

Literally, "bad mixture," the Greek term for the character flaw of incontinence or weakness of the will, the condition in which agents act inconsistently with their own best judgment about what it ...

al-'aks al-naqid

Philosophy; General philosophy

Contraposition, i.e. an immediate inference in which from a given proposition we infer another proposition, having for its subject the contradictory of the given predicate, e.g. from the proposition ...

al-'anasir al-'uqud

Philosophy; General philosophy

Modes of being,, viz. necessity (wujub), possibility (imkan) and impossibility (imtina'); the term is also used to denote the corresponding modalities of propositions.

al-'anasir al-khafif

Philosophy; General philosophy

The light element, the atoms of which always move upward like the atoms of fire which are said to be absolutely light or like those of air which are relatively so.

al-'aql al-mustafad

Philosophy; General philosophy

Acquired intellect, i.e. the intellect possessed with the comprehension of the universal forms, ultimate concepts and verities of knowledge by which possession it partakes more and more of the agent ...

al-'aql al-nazari

Philosophy; General philosophy

Theoretical reason or intellect which enables us to form universal concepts, comprehend meanings and interconnections of things, enter into argumentative discussion and have abstract thinking in ...

al-'illat al-suriyah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The formal cause of a thing, i.e. the form or shape given to a thing while producing it; with Aristotle it is also the inner idea or essence of a thing.