Every definition which makes uses of obscure language so...

Every definition which makes uses of obscure language so that it becomes necessary to define further the very terms used in that definition is an example of ta‘rif al-majhul bi’l-majhul. ta‘lil Taken generally, the term means causation; but, more specifically, it denotes the mode of inference or reasoning in which we proceed from the cause or the universal and deduce the effect or the particular from it. See also al-burhan al-limi. ta‘limi Quantitative, i.e.

that which pertains to the size, figure, volume or dimensions of a thing or to its number and countable parts. al-Tafsir The Interpretation: The Arabic title given sometimes to the second of Aristotle’s books on logic. See Bari Irminiyas. tafil al-murakkab The fallacy of division; see mughalatah taf?l al-murakkab. taqabul The relation of opposition between two concepts or states which cannot be asserted of a thing or an individual at the same time and in the same respect.

This is of four kinds: (1) contradiction (taqabul fi’l-salb wa’l-ijab, q.v.) (2) contrariety (taqabul al-diddain, q.v.) (3) correlation (taqabul al-tadayuf, q.v.) and (4) the relation between privation and possession (taqabul bain al-‘adm wa’l-milkah, q.v.) -all considered by Aristotle to be different forms on contrariety. taqabul bain al-‘adm wa’l-milkah The relation of opposition between privation and possession like that between rest and motion.

It is different from the opposition of between two contraries (taqabul al-diddain, q.v.): in the case of two contraries the existence of both is necessarily presupposed but no such presupposition is necessary in the case of that which is privative -rest is merely the non-existence of motion.

Moreover the two contraries like hot and cold have two separate causes: they are not the co-effects of the same cause, whereas that which is privative and that which is not so, like rest and motion, are due to the working and not-working of the same cause.

taqabul al-ta?ayuf The relation opposition between two correlatives, like that between the father and the son or that between the teacher and the pupil; though the one term necessarily implies the other, the two cannot obtain in the same individual at the same time in the same respect. taqabul al-?iddain The relation of opposition between two contraries such between white and black or between hotness and coldness, see also diddan.

taqabul fi’l-salb wa’l-ijab The relation of opposition between affirmation, and negation i.e.