Certainty and probability, from theology to the ‘servant’ sciences
Ahmad Wagih Doctor in Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University icon-calendar Wednesday October 18ᵗʰ, 2017 Muslim theologians (al-mutakallimūn) relied on the concepts of ‘certainty’ (al-qaṭʿiyya) and ‘probability’ (al-ẓanniyya) to build their theological argumentation and classify knowledge, in order to distinguish between what could be relied on and what
October 20th, 2017