Arabic text after the print of Cairo 1330/1912 · translation by The Mantiqi, draft
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Tahdhīb al-manṭiq تَهْذِيبُ المَنْطِقِ
Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792/1390)
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Arabic: Matn Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-l-kalām (the logic part; the notes on the kalām part not reproduced), with notes collected by ʿAbd al-Qādir Maʿrūf al-Kurdī al-Sanandajī; vowel marks added by The Mantiqi (draft); two misprints corrected to the usual reading (p. 6 yalzamu taṣawwuruhu min taṣawwuri l-malzūm for the print's yalzamu min taṣawwurihi taṣawwuru l-malzūm; p. 13 al-fiṭriyyāt for al-naẓariyyāt), Maṭbaʿat al-Saʿāda, Cairo 1330/1912 View the scan
“House” signifies the roof. What kind of signification is this?
Signification on the whole of what an utterance was coined for is correspondence, on its part inclusion, and on what lies outside it implication. The roof is part of the house.
السؤال 2
Which does the Tahdhīb say accompanies the other two kinds of signification?
“Correspondence accompanies both, if only by supposition; not the other way round.” An utterance with no parts, such as a point, can correspond without including.
السؤال 3
An utterance with one meaning whose instances differ by priority or greater fitness, like “existence” or “white”, is called…
With one meaning and no individuation in its coining, it is univocal if its instances are equal and modulated (mushakkik) if they differ by priority or greater fitness.