الدلالة في علم المنطق وأثرها على تطور علمي الأصول والبيان

This article seeks to track the development of the theory of signification (الدلالة النظرية) in Islamic civilization since its first appearance in the logical writings of Ibn Sina (d. 1037), through al-Ghazali's (d. 1111) works on logic, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's (d. 1209) writings on eloquence and jurisprudence, and finally, through al-Sakkaki's (d. 1229) theory of eloquence. The article discusses the tripartite division of significance into correspondence (مطابقة), implication (تضمن), and necessary consequence (التزام), highlighting this division's relevance to the understanding of the linguistic foundation of the above mentioned Islamic science.