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111sixth sense — Synonyms and related words: ESP, a priori knowledge, anticipation, buddhi, chromesthesia, clairsentience, clairvoyance, color hearing, direct apprehension, extrasensory perception, five senses, foresight, hearing, immediate cognition, insight,… …
112floating man argument — An argument that Ibn Sina makes to prove the substantiality of the soul. He calls upon the reader to enter into an introspective thought experiment, whereby we are to imagine a human being who has suddenly come into being, fully developed and… …
113Ibn Sab‘in, Abu Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Haqq — (614–69/ 1217–70) Known in Europe through his philosophical correspondence with Emperor Frederick II and beloved by his followers, the sab‘iniyyun, Ibn Sab‘in’s life was nevertheless a hard one. He led a rather nomadic existence, characterized …
114Ibn Sina, Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn — (370–428/980–1037) Born near Bukhara, Ibn Sina – or ‘Avicenna’, as he was known to the Latins – may very well be the most important and influential thinker, not just of the Neoplatonic Aristotelian (mashsha’i) school of Islamic philosophy in… …
115metaphysics — (ma ba‘d al tabi‘a; ilahiyyat) After a brief initial engagement with political issues, the kalam theologians quickly turned their focus upon the nature of God and His relation to creation. In order to address this issue properly, they were… …
116al-Suhrawardi, Shihab al-Din Yahya — [Persian: Sohravardi] (549–587/1154–91) Within the Islamic philosophical tradition, al Suhrawardi’s status is perhaps second only to Ibn Sina. Although he was notoriously executed at the age of thirty eight (on the orders of the Ayyubid… …
117direct — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. guide, lead; regulate, govern, conduct, head, manage, supervise, boss, rule; aim, point; order, command, prescribe, bid, instruct, teach, coach, prompt; show or lead the way; address. See authority …
118Delibes Setién, Miguel — b. 1920, Valladolid Writer In 1975, Miguel Delibes was named member of the Royal Academy of Language. In his acceptance speech, Delibes spelt out what have constituted the thematic components of his works: the myth of progress, solidarity,… …
119epistemology — The philosophical theory of knowledge of how we know what we know. Epistemology is generally characterized by a division between two competing schools of thought: rationalism and empiricism . Both traditions of thought received their most… …
120autobiography — While critiques of intentionalism and representationalism may have pointed to the impossibility of unmediated self expression, autobiography has proved a resilient genre in recent years, even emerging on the cutting edge of critical theory.… …
