Abu Bishar's Argument for Linguistic Expressions

Abu Saeed Asirafi was a learned expert on the Arabic language, one of many scholars who were at that time pushing forward the study of grammar. For Abu Bishar, what happens at the level of thought is universal and shared by all mankind; logic is the study of this translinguistic kind of intellectual activity. If you only have enough dirham in your bank account to afford one course of instruction in 10th century Baghdad, you'll be much better off spending your hard-earned cash at Asirafi's grammar school than Abu Bishars' logical academy.