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
Restricting the PSR to things with a finite past
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A correspondent asked me why not to simply believe in a restricted
Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) that says that everything contingent
that has a b...
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