The World and Its Origination: Creation and Philosophical Eternity
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- What is excluded from the definition of al-ʿālam?
- What does the phrase mā yuʿlamu bihi al-ṣāniʿ emphasize?
- How are the world of plants and world of bodies related?
- Why are divine attributes not included in the created world?
- What is the careful meaning of “not other than the Essence, nor simply identical”?
- What does ḥādith mean in the sense of temporal origination?
- What does a created thing’s long duration fail to establish?
- What does “of all its parts” add to the claim about the world?
- Which principle applies to an unseen created being?
- When can a particular body’s origination support a universal conclusion?
- What is the central philosophical disagreement here?
- What best captures the classical idea of hayūlā?
- What is corporeal form intended to account for?
- What does the alleged inseparability of matter and form not itself prove?
- Which example correctly distinguishes individual and kind?
- What distinguishes specific form from corporeal form?
- How should the classical water-to-air example be read?
- What is most directly illustrated by reshaping a clay vessel into a brick?
- What did the historical Peripatetic view claim regarding the heavens?
- What does generic eternity mean here?
- How does individual eternity differ from generic eternity?
- Why do observed predecessors not establish a beginningless series?
- Which alternative sense of origination appears in the philosophical account?
- What does sabaq al-ʿadam ʿalayhi mean?
- How should two schools using the same term ḥādith be compared?
- What does the later distinction between aʿyān and aʿrāḍ help establish?
- Al-ʿālam includes only created things visible to the human eye.
- Temporal origination and mere dependence in existence have exactly the same meaning.
- In the historical thesis of generic eternity, individuals may change while the kind’s succession is claimed to be beginningless.
- One particular body’s origination necessarily proves the origination of all created constituents without further argument.