ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how Avicenna viewed quantifiers which occur in predicate contexts. It discusses an Avicennian quantifier as having two major functions, one having to do with the range of objects being talked about, and the second with the type of objects being talked about. The chapter explains the syntax of quantifiers, qualifiers, and modal operators as these occur in predicate contexts. It presents Avicenna's explanation of modalities in predicate contexts, and while to do with syntax, the discussion here is quickly revealed as one to do with essentialism. The chapter shows one way of using these criticisms against Avicenna's modalities in predicate contexts, and one way author's explanation can survive these criticisms. It determines the nature of the relations between antecedents and consequents in conditional statements and the modal nature of the quantifiers which govern such statements in effect, whether causality in these contexts is still epistemic and therefore different from ontological causality.
