Perspective voyage · Around 1027

Ibn Sina — Experience with repetition and conditions

Does extensive repetition yield absolute universality, or only a strong judgment within specified conditions?

Person or traditionIbn Sina

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How far can the past support the future?

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`al-Burhān` I.9 distinguishes `istiqrāʾ`, which enumerates limited cases, from `tajriba`, which joins repeated sense experience with inference.

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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): al-Burhān min al-Shifāʾ
Ibn Sīnā; translated and introduced by Hannah C. Erlwein · 2025 · MPIWG Histories of Experience around the Globe #002; Arabic source text from Badawī 1966 with English translation; CC BY 4.0 DE
Locator: Translation, pages 7–10; al-Burhān I.9
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Causation in Arabic and Islamic Thought
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Section 4.1
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1027 CE · Around 1027

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