Prophetic Report, Miracles and Inferential Knowledge

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• What is essential to treating prophetic report as the second authoritative kind of report?
• What does conveying divine rulings signify?
• What follows from multiple scholarly definitions of rasūl and nabī?
• What is required to make an attribute an essential condition of messengership?
• Which set captures the definition of a miracle?
• Why is an extraordinary event not simply a logical impossibility?
• Why is saintly grace distinguished from miracle?
• If an unusual event occurs without a prophetic claim, what follows?
• What is the central premise in reasoning from miracle to prophetic truthfulness?
• Why is knowledge through prophetic report called inferential?
• Which is an example of sound inference?
• What distinguishes demonstration from mere persuasion?
• What is central to the definition of a composed proof?
• What is wrong with inferring revelation from ordinary honesty?
• What can correctly be inferred from a faulty argument?
• Even after prophethood is established, what must be verified for a particular saying?
• When may inferential knowledge be as certain as necessary knowledge?
• What does correspondence mean in the formula for knowledge?
• What does an accidentally correct answer not necessarily establish?
• If a report is established by tawātur, what is directly secured?
• Why separate necessary from inferential aspects of prophetic reporting?
• What differentiates khabar al-wāḥid from tawātur?
• Which statement best reflects nuance about isolated reports?
• What does a companion’s direct audition illustrate?
• Through what ordinary public route may divine reporting become known?
• Which two questions must be separated when considering consensus?
• Every unusual event is necessarily a miracle regardless of a prophetic claim.
• Tawātur can establish attribution, while a prophetic statement’s authoritative truth is connected to established prophethood.
• Every isolated report is necessarily false or unusable in practice.
• Merely hearing words conclusively establishes both their correct interpretation and the truth of the content.