Alfarabius [al-Fārābī]

in Albert the Great, Metaphysica V.6.13, p. 294.56-65

Occurrence of the quotation formula
Alfarabius, p. 294.57
Digression Neutral
Est autem haec obiectio Alfarabii et Avicennae philosophorum, quam et sic solvunt dicentes, quod haec propositio, quod omne quod praedicatur de aliquo ut ens de ratione ipsius, aut est praedicatum communissimum aut est in alio communiore, propositio est, quae concedi potest in aliquo, quia esse in genere communiore dupliciter dicitur: aut enim est in genere communiore ita, quod illud communius genus sit de ratione ipsius, aut ut sit concomitans ipsum.

References in current editions

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Notes
Al-Fārābī wrote Summaries and Long Commentaries on the whole Aristotelian Organon (including Porphyry’s Eisagoge). Yet, it is not sure that the Latin translations of these works were actually made. But even if they were made, they are now lost. Albertus might have used- or at least he was aware of- the logical works of al-Fārābī. For more, see: Grignaschi, M. GRIGNASCHI, Les traductions latines des ouvrages de la logique arabe et l’abrégé d’Alfarabi, « Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge ». 39, 1973, pp. 41–107 and Jules JANSSENS, Albert le Grand et sa connaissance des écrits logiques arabes: une réévaluation du dossier Grignaschi, in: J. BRUMBERG-CHAUMONT (ed.), Ad notitiam ignoti. L’Organon dans la translatio studiorum à l’époque d’Albert le Grand , Brepols, Turnhout 2013, pp. 225 - 257.