
HoP 188 - Sajjad Rizvi on Mulla Sadra
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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God's Knowledge of Particulars
The problem here was always Aristotle thinks that when you know something, it's because you have a grasp of some kind of universal truth. So the puzzle is whether you can also find a way for him to know particulars as well. I think there are two ways that Sather tries to deal with it. One is to go back to this whole issue of what do we mean by perception and even sense perception. And everything that exists in a sense outside of the human is really different types of preparations for how it is that the soul makes sense of it.
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