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What makes Sanna Marin, Sanna Marin? (Avicenna’s metaphysics II: existence as a per se accident)
For Avicenna, ”one”, or ”being” or ”existent” are per se accidents of ”thing”. A per se accident is a predicate (something which is affirmed or denied concerning an argument of a proposition) that belongs to a subject in itself or per se, but not as part of its essence. When you think of a thing,…
Avicenna’s metaphysics part I
At the core of Avicenna’s ontology and metaphysics is the idea that existence is the indubitable base of reality. In other words, there is no doubt that there is existence; in an attempt to deny existence you prove your existence. If you are anything you are, if you are nothing you still are (nothing). In…
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