In this article, I will discuss these issues both to ascertain Farabi’s views as well as to shed some light on them in their own right. It reveals something about his views on the nature of philosophical and scientific concepts and their relation to concepts in non-philosophical or ‘popular’ discourse, as well as the means of grasping previously unencountered concepts. The question of importing philosophical discourse from one language or nation to another touches on Farabi’s views on a number of important philosophical questions. This paper focuses on a discussion in Abu Nasr al-Farabi’s Book of Letters ( Kitāb al-Ḥurūf), which has to do with the importation of philosophical (including scientific) discourse from one language or nation ( ummah) to another.
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