Avicenna
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Relationship Between the Soul and the Body
Avison was once accused of not being very good in arabic. So he wrote an entire work a collating various obscure references to the arabic language, and various aspects of it show up the person who had made this accusation against himo. In fact, you might thinks not so much that he's pleased with himself, as he's just telling us the facts. I was thought of another good an don which it want to hear. Ind peas sim and awey, we go. And because of the centrality of the claim that the flying man would know his existence, this is sometimes compared to the famous argument in descartes, i think, therefore i am.
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