
HoP 131 - Deborah Black on al-Farabi's Epistemology
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Fadhabi's Aristotelian Approach to Epistemology
Al-Fadhabi doesn't have a lot of developed accounts of sense perception and so on. What I'm not so clear about is exactly how he would explain propositions like I'm looking at a blue wall or I know that I'm sitting here right now. So it's not like this sense experience sort of prepares the way for me to be zapped with an intelligible form from the agent intellect. Yeah, it seems pretty clear to me that Fadhabi doesn't see the pictures being that way.
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