Truthful Report: Tawatur and Necessary Knowledge

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• To what does correspondence refer in the definition of a truthful report?
• A sincere speaker says the door is shut, but it is open. What follows?
• Which utterance asserts a proposition?
• When is the negative report “The water is not cold” true?
• Which pair states the two categories of truthful report examined here?
• What does the phrase “lā yutaṣawwaru tawāṭuʾuhum” mean in tawātur?
• One announcement is forwarded by a hundred people. What can be concluded about tawātur?
• Why is a single fixed number insufficient as a universal tawātur test?
• What does “wuqūʿ al-ʿilm min ghayr shubhah” indicate?
• If a distant city is reliably known through widespread reporting, what does NOT follow?
• A past event is certain, but an attributed saying is weak. What distinction applies?
• What is the chief meaning of calling knowledge from tawātur “necessary”?
• What is the main issue in the dispute whether knowledge from tawātur is necessary or inferential?
• Someone knows a city exists before later arranging the grounds for it. What follows?
• What should be inferred first when two well-known historical accounts conflict?
• What is the basic problem when transmitters repeat a later interpretation rather than firsthand evidence of an event?
• How is the possibility of certainty from several individual reports explained?
• Fifteen people repeat one mistaken eyewitness. What is the evidential defect?
• When can speculation that all reporters coincidentally fabricated the same story amount to a serious objection?
• What reply best addresses the objection that necessary judgments appear to differ?
• What do ulf, ʿādah and mumārasah contribute to the discussion?
• What point does the example of Alexander make against the reported denial of tawatur?
• What is the most important investigation when assessing a claim of tawātur?
• Which distinction among truthful report, tawātur and necessary knowledge is accurate?
• Why is a messenger’s report supported by a miracle treated separately from tawātur?
• A report is understood, but its truth is not established. What is correct?
• A report may be true by corresponding to reality even before a particular listener knows that it is true.
• A report automatically becomes mutawātir when enough people repeat one shared original source.
• A central feature of calling knowledge from tawātur necessary is that a separate formal inference need not be constructed.
• The existence of opposed popular claims proves that no mutawātir report can ever yield certainty.