Al-Bihari - A Review of Avasenna's Arguments

Mughal era commentators on Al-Bihari are skeptical about the link between mental and concrete existence. The issue that provokes the debate is a theological one, writes Farahidin Arazi. We have universal knowledge gleaned from our experience of external things, he says. As a result, we have mental representations that may reveal the nature of the outside things,. But this still leaves a skeptical worry - we have no independent confirmation that our representations correspond to what they represent.