LessonsReason, Sound Inference and Classifications of KnowledgeQuiz

The source invokes innate cognition, reasoning from traces or effects and reliance on reports to explain how knowledge is obtained. Reason is not confined to abstract syllogisms detached from evidence.

وَاسْتِدْلَالٍ مِنَ الْآثَارِ وَشَهَادَةٍ مِنَ الْأَخْبَارِ
Or inference from traces and attestation through reports.

Footprints may supply evidence of someone's passage; multiple reliable witnesses may establish an event through testimony. The two routes differ: the first depends on assessing relations between effects and causes, the second on evaluating the report and its transmission.

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Innate Understanding, Traces and Reports

Reason, Sound Inference and Classifications of Knowledge

The source invokes innate cognition, reasoning from traces or effects and reliance on reports to explain how knowledge is obtained. Reason is not confined to abstract syllogisms detached from evidence.

وَاسْتِدْلَالٍ مِنَ الْآثَارِ وَشَهَادَةٍ مِنَ الْأَخْبَارِ
Or inference from traces and attestation through reports.

Footprints may supply evidence of someone's passage; multiple reliable witnesses may establish an event through testimony. The two routes differ: the first depends on assessing relations between effects and causes, the second on evaluating the report and its transmission.