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Perspective voyage · Around 1095

Al-Ghazālī — Critiquing unproved necessity, not philosophy wholesale

Does observed regularity prove necessary causation, or does that add a stronger metaphysical assumption?

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How far can reason speak about faith?

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The Incoherence argues that twenty teachings associated with al-Fārābī and Avicenna have not been demonstratively established, treating three as especially grave religious errors.

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  • al-Ghazali

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §3 The Incoherence of the Philosophers

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1095 CE · Around 1095

The Incoherence reframes a conflict between revelation and reason as a question about what has actually been demonstrated.

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