See further muta‘alliqat al-qiyas wa’l-burhan.

See further muta‘alliqat al-qiyas wa’l-burhan. lams The touch sensation: a power diffused in the skin and flesh of the animal body. When anything comes in contact with the body the nerves are stimulated and there occurs a change in the skin or flesh which leads to the sensation of touch. This is not a single sensation but one constituted of four pairs of sensations that we get from different sense-organs in the skin or flesh.

These four pairs of contrary sensations are: heat and cold, dryness and wetness, roughness and smoothness, hardness and softness (see al-hawas al-zahirah). Through these sensations an animal is enabled to feel its way towards safe and profitable places and avoid those which are dangerous and unprofitable. lahu Lit. "he has", but technically the category of possession as one of the ten Aristotelian categories (al-maqulat al-‘ashr, q.v.) see milk.

lauh al-taqabul Table or square of opposition representing four kinds of relations of "opposition" among the four traditional propositions, i.e. (1) subalternation (tahkim, q.v.), (2) contradiction (tanaqud, q.v.), (3) contrariety (tadadd, q.v.). and (4) subcontrariety (al-tadadd al-tahtani, q.v.). See also al-qadiyatan al-mutaqabilatan. Previous…