On The Duration of the Necessary. Avicennan and Post-Avicennan Variations on the Shifting the Range of Modalitiies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores selected historical and systematic ramifications of modal and temporal logic as developed within the Avicennan tradition. Particular attention is given to shifts in the scope of modalities with respect to the temporal duration over which the predicate applies to the subject. In contrast to recent Kripke-style analyses, the reconstruction proposed here builds upon prior work on Avicenna’s logic through the lens of constructive type-theoretical grammar, and draws on a dialogical, intensional semantics inspired by Suhrawardī’s conception of the dialectical meaning of modalities. This integrative approach aims to open new avenues for research, especially in elucidating the role of Avicennan modal logic within the broader context of the logical turn in Islamic debate theory and its relevance to contemporary philosophy of logic and argumentation theory. Moreover, the article lays the foundation for a dynamic framework that seeks to bridge the divide between informal historical interpretations and formal reconstructions of ancient and medieval logical systems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".