Here's a translation I did of Avicenna's Metaphysics (Al-Shifa) book 9, chapter 4. That's the place Avicenna describes the emanation of the universe from God. It's a facing page translation, with the critical Latin text.
Avicenna, Meta. 9.4
Open-mindedness and epistemic thresholds
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Fix a proposition *p*, and let *T*(*r*) and *F*(*r*) be the utilities of
assigning credence *r* to *p* when *p* is true and false, respectively. The
util...
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