Abu Bishar's Debate With Asirafi

Al-Farabi makes two improvements to Abu Bishar's rather naive claim that logic transcends language completely and operates at the level of thought. Al-Farabi points out that thought itself is linguistically structured, he says. He uses the phrase interior discourse to describe what is happening in the mind. It seems quite likely that the whole event really was a public relations disaster for Abu Bishr," writes Asirafi.