Question
Avicenna supposedly read the Metaphysics forty times, but failed to understand it until he read this philosopher’s commentary. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 10th-century Islamic philosopher known as the “Second Teacher.”
ANSWER: Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Fārābī [or Alpharabius; or Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī]
[10h] Al-Fārābī argued that logic is similar to this field, except that it involves “intelligibles.” A debate in the year 932 between Abu Sa’id al-Sirafi and Abū Bishr Mattā concerned the relationship between logic and this field.
ANSWER: grammar [prompt on linguistics or language]
[10e] Al-Fārābī’s moniker of “Second Teacher” alludes to this philosopher, who was known as the “First Teacher.” Islamic logic was largely inspired by this philosopher’s Organon.
ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotélēs]
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