Arguments of the Sophists: Immediate Knowledge, Inference and Replies

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• What is the unsupported step in the skeptical argument from sensory error?
• What most directly differentiates inferential from immediate knowledge?
• Which category is chiefly illustrated by “fire is hot”?
• Why does “the whole is greater than its part” illustrate a first principle?
• Someone directly feels pain but does not know its cause. Which analysis is sound?
• Why does “four is even” illustrate a proposition accompanied by its proof?
• What does the historical medicinal example illustrate about experience?
• What distinguishes intuitive cognition from a baseless hunch?
• What is essential to knowledge of a distant city through tawātur?
• Which statement best reflects the sevenfold classification of necessary knowledge?
• In the double-vision example, what distinction matters?
• What conclusion appropriately follows from the historical altered-taste example?
• What should be checked first when rival positions each claim to be self-evident?
• Why does the passage mention contested claims among Muʿtazilites, philosophers and Ashʿarites?
• What is appropriate when a dispute arises from an obscure conception?
• What properly follows from “inferential judgments are derivative of necessary knowledge”?
• What problem arises if every premise always requires another premise without end?
• What does disagreement between two reasoners establish by itself?
• A rope being mistaken for a snake in darkness does NOT show which claim?
• What follows when a specific premise in an inference is shown false?
• If an argument has a valid form but a false premise, which conclusion is sound?
• How can objective truth remain despite multiple competing opinions?
• Why is debate with the most radical “I do not know” position portrayed as difficult?
• How should the passage’s historical expression about punishment by fire be understood in teaching?
• What does “mumāwwahah” convey in the phrase “al-ḥikmah al-mumawwahah”?
• Which statement best summarizes the lesson’s conclusion?
• Repeating a single unsupported report many times automatically produces tawātur.
• Apparent disputes about self-evident propositions can arise from unclear terms or distinct respects.
• Disagreement about an inferential question conclusively proves that no correct answer exists.
• Reasoned debate becomes difficult when no shared premises or standards of evidence are acknowledged.