Al-Farabi's inference from 'cooperates with instruments sometimes' to 'must act without instruments at least once' commits a non-sequitur, since necessary dependence on mediation is consistent with being the first in an ordered causal series.

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Al-Farabi(the subject being discussed in the statement): A medieval Islamic philosopher (10th century) who wrote about logic, metaphysics, and how things cause other things to exist.
First in an ordered causal series(what Al-Farabi argues something could be, even while using instruments): The original cause or starting point of a chain of events—the thing that begins the whole sequence without being caused by anything else.
Mediation(Sartre, 1948a, 56; analogous to Merleau-Ponty's account of expression as communication.): The process by which individual expression is related to shared communal meaning, used by Sartre in a sense germane to the existentialist account of expression.
Necessary dependence(describes an unavoidable reliance on mediation or instruments): When something absolutely must rely on or need something else to exist or work—there's no way around it.

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