Editing Truth (section)

===Avicenna (980–1037)===
In [[early Islamic philosophy]], [[Avicenna]] (Ibn Sina) defined truth in his work ''[[The Book of Healing]]'', Book I, Chapter 8, as:
{{blockquote|What corresponds in the mind to what is outside it.<ref>Osman Amin (2007), "Influence of Muslim Philosophy on the West", ''Monthly Renaissance'' 17 (11).</ref>}}

[[Avicenna]] elaborated on his definition of truth later in Book VIII, Chapter 6:
{{Blockquote|The truth of a thing is the property of the being of each thing which has been established in it.<ref name=Aertsen>Jan A. Aertsen (1988), ''Nature and Creature: Thomas Aquinas's Way of Thought'', p. 152. Brill, 978-90-04-08451-3.</ref>}}

This definition is but a rendering of the [[medieval]] Latin translation of the work by Simone van Riet.<ref>{{cite book
| author = Simone van Riet
| title = Liber de philosophia prima, sive Scientia divina
| page = 413
| language = la}}</ref> A modern translation of the original Arabic text states:

{{blockquote|Truth is also said of the veridical belief in the existence [of something].<ref>{{cite book
| title = Avicenna: The Metaphysics of The Healing |author=Avicenna|author-mask=0
| publisher = Brigham Young University Press
| year = 2005
| page = 284
| others =Introduction and annotation by Michael E. Marmura
|translator-last=Marmura |translator-first=Michael E.
| isbn = 978-0-934893-77-0
}}</ref>}}