Divine Speech: Eternal Attribute, Inner Speech and Its Relations

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• What is affirmed by “speech is an eternal attribute”?
• What correctly distinguishes inner and articulated speech?
• What distinction is shown by expressing one meaning through speech, writing, or gesture?
• Why are knowledge and speech not simply identical?
• A person knowingly reports something false. What does this example illustrate?
• What mistaken inference follows from identifying normative command with divine will?
• Which statement correctly relates a commanded act and compliance?
• Why invoke an expression like “speech is in the heart”?
• When would the circularity objection to transmitted proof apply?
• What role does evidence from a miracle have in the reply to circularity?
• Why is the basis of the derived term mutakallim discussed?
• Which attribute is listed in addition to knowledge and power among the eight?
• What problem arises if divine speech is defined only as creating words in another locus?
• What is a principal argument for the temporality of articulated letters and sounds?
• What does imagining all letters of a word simultaneously reveal?
• What does outward silence NOT necessarily entail?
• What distinguishes muteness from voluntary silence?
• Why is an impediment to articulation discussed in relation to inner speech?
• What does NOT follow from one eternal attribute having many objects?
• Which distinction between report and prohibition is correct?
• What is the central objection to reducing commands, prohibitions, and reports all to “reports”?
• How is an eternal command understood in relation to a not-yet-existent addressee?
• How do the time of obligation and the time of compliance relate?
• What does it mean for an eternal report to concern past or future events?
• Before discussing whether the Qur’an is uncreated, what distinction is essential?
• What does “subsisting in the essence” mean in this definition of inner speech?
• Affirming eternal inner speech makes every reciter’s voice eternal.
• The meaning of a command and actual compliance with it are different matters.
• Temporal succession among letters is relevant to arguing that their vocal articulation is originated.
• Numerous objects of one eternal attribute necessarily create numerous temporal attributes in God.