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
Aristotelian abstraction
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On the Aristotelian account of abstraction, we abstract the forms of things
via perception. But here is a problem. First of all, we sometimes have
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