TY - JOUR ID - 32948 TI - Suhrawardi's Modal Syllogisms JO - جاویدان خرد JA - IW LA - fa SN - 2251-8932 AU - موحد, ضیاء AD - دانشیار موسسه پژوهشی حکمت و فلسفه ایران Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 09 IS - 21 SP - 5 EP - 18 KW - Suhrawardi KW - Logic KW - Modal logic KW - Syllogism KW - Hikmat al-Ishraq DO - N2 - Suhrawardi’s logic of the Hikmat al-Ishraq is basically modal. So to understand his modal logic one first has to know the non-modal part upon which his modal logic is built. In my previous paper ‘Suhrawardi on Syllogisms’(3) I discussed the former in detail. The present paper is an exposition of his treatment of modal syllogisms. On the basis of some reasonable existential presuppositions and a number of controversial metaphysical theses, and also by confining his theory to alethic modality, Suhrawardi makes his modal syllogism simple in a way that is without precedent UR - http://www.javidankherad.ir/article_32948.html L1 - http://www.javidankherad.ir/article_32948_a70f1286b01442fa2d0c1564ca042455.pdf ER -