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
Knowledge and induction
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Assume that in fact all ravens are black. Suppose you are sequentiallly
observing ravens, and noting each one to be black. After observing *n*
ravens, yo...
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