The opening text notes that the term knowledge has more than one technical use:
اعلم أن العلم يطلق على معان
Know that the word knowledge is used in several senses.
These are not five interchangeable definitions. Some scholars describe the acquisition of a thing in the mind, others the resulting mental form, and others the relation between knower and known.
The disagreement concerns how the nature of knowledge should be analyzed. The first two formulations provide the most useful starting point.
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Knowledge, Conception, Assent and Their Divisions
The opening text notes that the term knowledge has more than one technical use:
اعلم أن العلم يطلق على معان
Know that the word knowledge is used in several senses.
These are not five interchangeable definitions. Some scholars describe the acquisition of a thing in the mind, others the resulting mental form, and others the relation between knower and known.
The disagreement concerns how the nature of knowledge should be analyzed. The first two formulations provide the most useful starting point.