Truth and Falsehood in Reports: The Majority, al-Naẓẓām and al-Jāḥiẓ

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• What is the key dispute in defining the truth of a report?
• What is the external relation in “Zayd is present”?
• When is a report true according to the majority?
• Under the majority definition, falsehood negates what?
• A person sincerely believes it is raining, but it is dry. They say “It is raining.” How does the majority classify this?
• In “ṣidq al-khabar muṭābaqatuhu,” what does correspondence primarily concern?
• What is al-Naẓẓām’s criterion of truth?
• An assertion is contrary to reality but agrees with a mistaken belief. How do the majority and al-Naẓẓām classify it?
• What is the distinction between a true report and a speaker’s lack of deception?
• Which two conditions define truth for al-Jāḥiẓ?
• A report matches reality, but the speaker thinks it does not. What is its status for al-Jāḥiẓ?
• A report is false in reality but sincerely believed. How does al-Jāḥiẓ classify it?
• How many intermediate combinations does the source discuss under al-Jāḥiẓ?
• Why is the absence of belief important on al-Jāḥiẓ’s account?
• What is meant by the exhaustive division of reports into truth and falsehood?
• Why does negating al-Jāḥiẓ’s compound truth condition not automatically establish compound falsehood?
• What is the central difficulty raised by the verse about the hypocrites?
• Why is “nashhadu” (“we testify”) important in the Qur’anic example?
• Which surah contains “wa-Allahu yashhadu inna al-munafiqina la-kadhibun”?
• What distinction is central to the response to the hypocrites verse?
• What is the context of “af-tarā ʿalā Allāh kadhiban am bihi jinnah”?
• What distinguishes fabrication (iftirāʾ) from a merely factually false report?
• What caution is essential when assessing the alleged exhaustive disjunction in Sabaʾ 34:8?
• Zayd is absent, but the speaker believes him present and asserts “Zayd is present.” Which mapping is right?
• Which dimensions must be combined to understand al-Jāḥiẓ’s intermediate cases?
• Which subject begins immediately after this lesson?
• On the majority account, sincere conviction makes a false-in-reality report true.
• Under the view associated with al-Naẓẓām, a report can count as true by matching an erroneous belief.
• For al-Jāḥiẓ, factual correspondence combined with contrary belief always yields full truth.
• There need be no contradiction between the truth of the prophethood proposition and the falsity of the hypocrites’ profession of testimony.