Analysis of the Copulative in Sentence, Proposition and Assent from the Perspective of Ibn Sina

Azimi Dastgerdi, Javad

doi:10.30465/lsj.2025.51534.1497

Analysis of the Copulative in Sentence, Proposition and Assent from the Perspective of Ibn Sina

Document Type : Research

Author

Javad Azimi Dastgerdi

University of Isfahan

10.30465/lsj.2025.51534.1497

Abstract

To accurately understand a statement and arrive at the speaker's intentions and beliefs, specific rules and principles are needed. After reaching that information, it must be analyzed logically in order to think about and use it in arguments. This analysis in logic is carried out by analyzing propositions. "Proposition" has various dimensions and components that are subject to philosophy's interpretation. Philosophers' interpretations are of great importance and can be effective in analyses and logical structures of assents, in addition to being used in sciences such as epistemology. Using the method of content analysis, when Ibn Sina's writings in this field are examined, it is found that there are three types of propositions with specific rules: the verbal proposition (sentence), the rational proposition (proposition), and the accepted proposition (assent). "Copulative" is the most fundamental component in a sentence, which indicates the "predicative relation" in the proposition, a relationship that results from a subjective relation and is an attribute of the subject. In the assent, "judgment" is attributed to that relationship.

Keywords

proposition

assent

sentence

copulative

Ibn Sina

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