
HoP 152 - Richard Taylor on Averroes
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of Discourse in Religion
Fassil al-Makal is a treatise on distinction of discourse. Aristotle equivocates on the term kias which means syllogism. In religious matters we should use the most appropriate and perfect kind of kias, he says. The ultimate criterion in all of this will be philosophical,. So to come back to the point then it isn't that these three discourses cannot intercept. A truth which in rhetoric in rhetorical context or this religious context the truth is hit upon only perotchy does not per se.
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