When1: 1010
When2: 1030
Who: Avicenna or Ibn Sina [Sina, Ibn] or Abu Ali Seena [Seena, Abu Ali] or Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd-Allah ibn Sina [Sina, Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd-Allah ibn] or Supreme Master
What: philosopher/physician/alchemist
Where: Bokhara
works\ Book of Salvation [1010 to 1030: philosophy]; Book of Directives and Remarks [1010 to 1030: philosophy]; Canon of Medicine [1010 to 1030]; Book of Healing [1010 to 1030]; Virtuous City [1010 to 1030]
Detail: He lived 981 to 1037, developed Islamic philosophy based on Aristotle, studied the intellectually intelligible, and studied statement time types. His students were Gorgani and Bahmanyar, in Muslim Peripatetic School.
Epistemology
Prophecy is knowledge about mystical experiences.
Metaphysics
Necessary being and possible {contingent} being both exist. One being, God, has identical essence and existence and so is necessary {existence, Avicenna} {Avicennan proof of existence}. All other existences come from Necessary Being by a hierarchy of existences, in which higher things determine lower-thing essences. Vacuum is impossible.
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