 To this wider framework it belongs Avempace’s use of the syllogism in his book on Coming-to-be and Passing-away. When man argues, he accomplishes a kind of mental movement and the movers are the premises of the syllogism. Avempace illustrates it with an example: A man takes our money and travels with it towards Cairo. We go after him and we have to stop over in the different places of his way up to when we reach the final point, Cairo. Avempace explains us the story: