XI *-ON KNOWLEDGE OF PARTICULARS

Peter Adamson

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Medieval and Classical Philosophy Medieval Philosophy and Theology Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

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Avicenna's notorious claim that God knows particulars only ‘in a universal way’ is argued to have its roots in Aristotelian epistemology, and especially in the Posterior Analytics . According to Avicenna and Aristotle as understood by Avicenna, there is in fact no such thing as ‘knowledge’ of particulars, at least not as such. Rather, a particular can only be known by subsuming it under a universal. Thus Avicenna turns out to be committed to a much more surprising epistemological thesis: even humans know particulars only in a universal way.

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