Download or read book Al-Farabi's Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 800-1200 A.D., Arabic scholars studied many of the works of Greek philosophy, and recorded their interpretations. Significant Arabic interpretations of Aristotle's Prior Analytics, the key work of his logical Organon, however, have remained largely unavailable in the West. The recent discovery of several Arabic manuscripts in Istanbul revealed the "Short Commentary on Prior Analytics" by the medieval Arabic philosopher al-Farabi. Nicholas Rescher here presents the first translation of this work in English, and supplements this with an informative introduction and numerous explanatory footnotes.