
HoP 125 - Reasoned Belief - Saadia Gaon
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Saadiya's Kalam - The Three Other Routes to Knowledge
Many proponents of Kalam say we understand the truth by using our capacity for reason. Saadiya is not claiming that we should blindly follow whatever tradition tells us. He supplies quotes from the Bible to prove that the scriptures endorse the use of sensation, reason and inference.
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