2020 Volume 5 Issue 2 Supplementary
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THE EXTENT AND SECRET OF THE IMAGINATIONS’ EVIDENTNESS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MULLA SADRA AND DESCARTES


Ali KARBASIZADEH ESFAHANI, Mahdi DEHBASHI, Sayed Muhammad DAVUD ALAVI
Abstract

The philosophers’ efforts in line with the finding of a robust essence for cognizance have led to the locating of learnings recounted as being evident. Now, what is evident; how much it is extended and what is the scale for the learnings’ evident and improvised nature? These are questions that the present article tries finding answers for them from the perspective of Mulla Sadra and Descartes in the area of the evident imaginations. The investigations indicated that, although there are some differences in regard of the knowledge by presence and lack of trust in the sensory concepts, these two philosophers’ answers are very close such as concerning the acceptance of the science’s division into evident (intuitive) and subjective (deductive), adequacy of sufficiency to the “paying of attention to the certainties” in evident-intuitive cognizance, exclusiveness of the evidentness to the intellectual intuition (Descartes) and pure intellectual concepts (Sadra) as well as the acceptance of the extendedness as a scale and secret of the evidentness in the evident imaginations.


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