Avicenna on the Nature of Mathematical Objects

Zarepour, Mohammad Saleh

doi:10.1017/s0012217316000524

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Necessary Existence and Monotheism

Zarepour

2022

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Avicenna believes that God must be understood in the first place as the Necessary Existent (wâǧib al-wuǧûd). In his various works, he provides different versions of an ingenious argument for the existence of the Necessary Existent—the so-called Proof of the Sincere (burhân al-ṣiddîqîn)—and argues that all the properties that are usually attributed to God can be extracted merely from God's having necessary existence. Considering the centrality of tawḥîd to Islam, the first thing Avicenna tries to extract from God's necessary existence is God's oneness. The aim of the present Element is to provide a detailed discussion of Avicenna's arguments for the existence and unity of God. Through this project, the author hopes to clarify how, for Avicenna, the Islamic concept of monotheism is intertwined with the concept of essential existence.

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Necessary Existence and Monotheism

Zarepour

2022

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Infinite Magnitudes, Infinite Multitudes, and the Beginning of the Universe

Zarepour

2020

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Mereology in Kalām

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2020

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The objective of this article is twofold. First, it investigates mereology in medieval Islamic theology, particularly the theologians’ claim that the whole is identical to its parts and accordingly that at least some attributes common to the parts must by extension be attributed of the whole. This claim was refuted by philosophers and, from the eleventh century onwards, an increasing number of theologians. Second, it offers a new interpretation of the standard theological proof from accidents for creation ex nihilo, to which this problem was central. A wide range of early, classical and later theological and philosophical sources are consulted.

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Avicenna on the Nature of Mathematical Objects

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Necessary Existence and Monotheism

Necessary Existence and Monotheism

Infinite Magnitudes, Infinite Multitudes, and the Beginning of the Universe

Mereology in Kalām

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