ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters on this book. The book constitutes the core of Avicenna's philosophy. While religion and prophecy are thereby upheld as pillars of faith, philosophy itself comes to be viewed as a rationalist pillar for that faith rather than as a rationalist enterprise coming to replace it. The book observes this: truths in this world represent conventional systems of belief, and this fact is reflected in one's logical system by the emphasis in this system being on consistency rather than on truths properly so-called. It finds Avicenna's understanding of the role of logic reflected in his treatment of statements which bear truth-values by the emphasis in these statements being on assent, or on the conferral of other speakers of the language, rather than on the propositional contents of those statements.
