
Ibn Taymiyyah's Theology - Part 2 with Dr Hatem al-Haj
Blogging Theology
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The Universal in Years in All of These Cats
In Taimian, nominalism or conceptualism, I would say, and I'm not going to get into the very exact type of his nominalism. But is he a moderate nominalist, conceptualist, probably a conceptualist in Taimian thought there is nothing outside in the external reality except the particular cats. So only particular things exist, no forms exist in reality. There are no forms in which there is no form called existence in which the mosquito and the throne participate. Rather, the mind abstracts the universal concept which is called an isman maujoud or absolute name. And if it is said that this exists and that exists, then the existence of each one
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