Document Type : Research

Abstract

Poetics is one of the five arts of logic. All of five arts are molded in the form of syllogism and from a material appropriate to each art. The material of poetics is imagined propositions, from which poetic syllogisms are composed. Logicians have different views on presenting the form of poetic syllogism. Al-Farabi and Avicenna, as two great logicians, have each taken a different path in this regard. Al-Farabi considers the form of poetic syllogism as one of the invalid modes of second figure and Ibn Sina considers it as one of the valid modes of first figure. In addition, Ibn Sina considers the example of a poetic proposition sometimes as the conclusion of a syllogism and sometimes as the minor premise of a syllogism. In this article, we have tried to explain why each of these two logicians has chosen a specific figure and mode of syllogism as the poetic syllogism, and regarding Ibn Sina, we will also explain the difference between the two examples that he has mentioned as examples of poetic syllogism.

Keywords

• five arts
• poetics
• syllogism
• Farabi
• Ibn Sina

Main Subjects

• Traditional Logic