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Things as They are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth

Things as They are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth

Spiker, Hasan

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Series: Classification of the Sciences Project, Book 2

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Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 9948860748
ISBN13: 9789948860747
Publisher: Tabah Research
Published: May 4 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In a philosophical idiom that attempts to be intelligible to the reader who is not traditionally trained, this study outlines various dimensions of traditional Islamic 'correspondence' theories of truth. It particularly argues that purely intelligible, 'abstract' concepts, universal natures and general principles objectively apply to the world, against schools of thought that contend that they are subjectively imposed. It is only by discerning the congruity or discordance of these fundamental instruments of general metaphysics with forms of extramental reality, that we are able to avoid the implication that their lack of sensible referents implies our knowledge of the world - which is contingent upon the employment of these instruments - must be ultimately subjective. These intelligible entities, universal natures and general principles can thus only be validated by situating them within an all-encompassing theory of objective reality and truth, in the Islamic tradition nafs al-amr or 'things as they are'. Transcending individual minds and sensible reality, such a theory must be sufficiently broad to account for the ultimate ontological and henological status of such universal and abstract principles and forms.

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