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
Mereology, plural quantification and free lunches
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It is sometimes claimed that arbitrary mereological fusions and plural
quantification are a metaphysical free lunch, just a new way of talking
without an...
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