A Convergence Between Arab Grammarians and Logicians

(An Analytical Study)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to shed some lights on the differences between the logicians and the Arab grammarians and to bring their points of view closer, but not as a way of reconciliation, as it aims to clarify some of the conceptual misunderstanding related to deduction and induction. The study was based on the descriptive analytical approach, through the review and the analysis of the concept of syllogism, as stated in the Aristotelian logic, in Arabic grammar and their respective applications and through shedding lights in views of the modern and the ancient scholars, especially with regard to the concepts of regularities and its irregularities and its relation to syllogism and hearing; One of the most important results of the study is that the analog that is found in the language is part of its nature and its tongue, and is not the type of syllogism that Aristotle did, and that even when this syllogism meets with the laws of Aristotelian logic, it must still be special and one of the characteristics of the Arabic language which means that it is hard to exclude the perspectives of either the grammarians or the logicians on the presence of syllogism in the Arabic language. In addition, the study supports that irregularities are part of the Arabic language that is governed by its usage or probably by rules that are not discovered yet.