Fire and Heat: Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī and Avicenna on the Essentiality of Being Substance or Accident

Fire and Heat: Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī and Avicenna on the Essentiality of Being Substance or AccidentArabic Sciences and PhilosophySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RVFXXJIP/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.FedorBenevichFire and Heat: Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī and Avicenna on the Essentiality of Being Substance or Accidenthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RVFXXJIPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RVFXXJIPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RVFXXJIPArabic Sciences and Philosophy27:22017237-267Avicenna's analysis of the definition of substance and accident repeatedly emphasizes two points: one and the same essence cannot be substance in one instance and accident in another; whether x is extrinsic or intrinsic for an underlying subject, y does not tell us anything as to whether x is substance or not. Both points are development in an argument against certain unnamed people who claimed the opposite. In this article I will show that Avicenna's opponents are to be identified with the mainstream Baghdad Peripatetic School (Ibn Suwār, Ibn al-Ṭayyib) which based itself on the Late Antique rule that “parts of substances are substances”. As for Avicenna's own position, it was developed on the basis of the heterodox position of Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī, who anticipated Avicenna's first point. This is a further piece of evidence for something that has only recently begun to be appreciated: the influence of Ibn ʿAdī on Avicenna. Benevich, Fedor. “Fire and Heat: Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī and Avicenna on the Essentiality of Being Substance or Accident.” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 27:2 (2017): 237–67. Fedor Benevich, Fire and Heat: Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī and Avicenna on the Essentiality of Being Substance or Accident, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 27:2 (2017): 237–67.Arab ChristiansIbn SinaJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEX CEYahya b. Adiphilosophy