The Difficulty of Achieving Successive Transmission in Imperfect Beings: An Epistemological Solution Based on Avicennian Logic

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PhD student of Transcendent Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

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Logicians have considered unanimous traditions as certainties. They considered the attainment of certainty through successive transmission to be conditional upon the flow of successive transmission in the field of perceptibles; in the sense that what has been repeatedly narrated is useful certainty if it belongs to something perceptible. With this condition, they set aside the successive transmission of intelligible objects and did not consider it useful for certainty. The main problem of the current writing is to examine the flow of successive transmission in the area of contemplated imperfect beings; such as near-death experiences. These are things that are not perceptible, so their successive transmission is not useful for certainty according to logicians. Moreover, they are not obtained through thinking and reasoning, so their multiple reports do not bring logical certainty. However, they are visible to humans without the mediation of external senses and thinking. The question is: Is the multiple narration of such events, from the perspective of Avicennian logic and its foundations, useful for logical certainty, like the successive transmission of perceptible things? It is clear that accepting the possibility of obtaining certainty through the successive transmission of contemplated imperfect beings provides the basis for their use in the premises of an argument. The following article, by analyzing the process of obtaining certainty in the successive transmission of perceptible things from the perspective of Avicennian Logic, and by explaining the return of unanimous traditions to tested propositions and then to primary premises, attempts to prove the possibility of obtaining certainty through the successive transmission of contemplated imperfect beings.

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Avecinnian Philosophy Journal
Volume 28, Issue 71
April 2024
Pages 159-177

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