Demonstration and the Six Kinds of Certain Premises

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• What kind of premises are required by the definition of burhān?
• If a syllogism is valid but one essential premise is only probable, what follows?
• On what basis does the intellect assent to first principles?
• “A whole is greater than its proper part” illustrates which category?
• What primarily distinguishes fiṭriyyāt from first principles?
• What is the readily available middle term for “Four is even”?
• Why is “One is half of two” treated as fiṭrī?
• Why does quick understanding not automatically make a proposition a first principle?
• What is the key characteristic of ḥads in the source?
• In the two movements of discursive thought, where does the second movement lead?
• What distinguishes warranted intuition from an unsupported hunch?
• A judgment made through an external sense belongs to which category?
• How many external senses does the textbook enumerate?
• Feeling one's own present thirst is closest to which category?
• How does hearing a bell differ from identifying who rang it?
• Which element is central to the source definition of tajribiyyāt?
• After observing a substance produce an effect once, which conclusion is most warranted?
• How should the textbook example involving scammony be interpreted?
• What is the basic classical condition for mutawātirāt?
• If 100 people forward the same unreliable message, what follows?
• What does the mention of different minimum numbers for tawātur indicate?
• How do dialectical mashhūrāt differ from demonstrative mutawātirāt?
• Why are “whole exceeds part” and “four is even” placed in different classes?
• What term describes an expert immediately apprehending the relevant principles of a solution?
• What must hold for a reported claim to function as demonstrative matter?
• Directly seeing a cloud is an example of which class?
• How do “I hear a sound” and “This machine caused it” differ?
• In the traditional inner-faculty scheme, which faculty retains sensible forms?
• Which set correctly lists the six categories of certain premises?
• Any premise asserted confidently by many people is necessarily certain in logic.
• Fiṭriyyāt may require a middle term that is immediately present to the mind.
• A report is mutawātir merely because one original message is forwarded many times.
• The source permits demonstrative premises that are inferentially certain when their proofs ultimately rest on certain foundations.