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HoP 144 - Miracle Worker - al-Ghazali against the Philosophers

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Asharite Interpretation of Causation

Ar-Razi Ali denies that it is necessary for something flammable to burn when touched by fire. The philosophers, he says, deny miracles because they want causes to give rise to their effects necessarily. One possible interpretation does have him asserting the Asharite view and saying that God always creates things in the way we expect him to do.

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