The Point of Resemblance: Actual and Imagined Likeness, Real and Relational Aspects
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- What is the point of resemblance?
- Why is existence not the intended point in “Zayd is as brave as a lion”?
- Which is an example of actual participation?
- What characterizes imaginative participation?
- What is the main pictorial correspondence in the stars–Sunnah example?
- Why is “too much salt” not straightforwardly equivalent to “too much grammar”?
- Which reading better explains grammar and salt?
- Which kind of aspect belongs within a thing’s nature?
- What kind of commonality is being human between two people?
- Comparing a human and a horse under animality illustrates what?
- If two garments are compared only in whiteness, what is the point?
- What does comparing two visible people in courage show?
- What distinguishes redness from roundness as points of likeness?
- Two objects may be equally round yet differ in size. What does this demonstrate?
- What is the point in “His voice is like thunder in loudness”?
- Which pair shares a feature perceived through taste?
- Which feature can link smooth skin with silk?
- Which distinction between malāsah and ṣalābah is correct?
- Which statement correctly relates knowledge and intelligence?
- What is central to ḥilm (forbearance)?
- Why can courage be a real intellectual quality?
- Why is the removal of a veil relational in the proof–sun simile?
- Which statement about the two classifications is correct?
- How should breadth be understood in “two scholars are oceans in knowledge”?
- What is the correct sequence for analyzing a point of resemblance?
- Every property shared by the terms is automatically the point of resemblance.
- An imaginative point can be sound when a coherent correspondence is established.
- Features known through sight, hearing, taste, smell or touch can be sensory points.
- Comparing two visible people in forbearance necessarily makes the aspect visual.
- In proof–sun imagery, removing concealment involves what was hidden and its revelation.