Avicenna on the problem of God’s knowledge of multiple things

IF 0.5 2区哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES ASIAN PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-06-11 DOI:10.1080/09552367.2022.2063541

Amirhossein Zadyousefi

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ABSTRACT (i) God is omniscient; therefore, for any two propositions, P1 and P2, God knows both that P1 and P2. (ii) If God knows multiple things, then God is not simple. (iii) But, God is supposed to be a simple being. As is clear, propositions (i)–(iii) form an inconsistent triad. This is the general form of one of the problems, which I call the Problem of Plurality (PP), with which Avicenna was engaged concerning God’s knowledge and especially God’s knowledge of particulars. In the secondary literature around Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars PP has not been scrutinized. But, in this paper, without discussing Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars, I will explain exactly what this problem is.

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阿维森纳关于上帝对多种事物的知识的问题

摘要（一）上帝是无所不知的；因此，对于任何两个命题，P1和P2，上帝都知道P1和P2。（ii）如果上帝知道许多事情，那么上帝就不是简单的。（iii）但是，上帝应该是一个简单的存在。很明显，命题（i）-（iii）形成了一个不一致的三元组。这是其中一个问题的一般形式，我称之为多元性问题（PP），阿维森纳参与了这一问题，涉及上帝的知识，尤其是上帝对细节的知识。在围绕阿维森纳的上帝对细节的认识理论的次要文献中，PP没有被仔细审查。但是，在本文中，在不讨论阿维森纳关于上帝对细节的认识的理论的情况下，我将确切地解释这个问题是什么。

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期刊介绍： Asian Philosophy is an international journal concerned with such philosophical traditions as Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist and Islamic. The purpose of the journal is to bring these rich and varied traditions to a worldwide academic audience. It publishes articles in the central philosophical areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, as well as in applied philosophical areas such as aesthetics and jurisprudence. It also publishes articles comparing Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.