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Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (c.1056–1111) was a Sunni philosopher who taught at Baghdad and Nishapur.

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More detailed information is available at https://www.ghazali.org/.

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Should one consider it a 'miracle' that the world exists?

Miracles are used generally in theological/religious contexts. Outside of them they're seen as either rationally explicable as signifiers of theological truths that are uncovered by hermeneutics of various kinds. I want to see whether there are…
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Conditions for Deduction

Hume posited a well known critique of causality that goes back to al-Ghazali - that there is no necessary connection between a cause and an effect. The same argument it seems can be targeted to logical deduction itself - intuitively seeing…
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Are particulars knowable?

In the 13th thesis of the Incoherence, al-Ghazali refutes the claim of the falsafa (peripatetic) philosophers that particulars aren't knowable by the First (Principle). Is this claim made on the basis that particulars aren't knowable by the…
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What is the difference between Avicenna's and al-Ghazâlî's understandings of causality?

In the 17th discussion of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Al-Ghazali attempts to explain how a certain view of causality (which we can see is quite certainly intended to be that espoused by Avicenna) fails to meet his four requirements for an…
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What is the relationship between Al-Ghazali's Occasionalism, Whitehead's occasions and QM?

In 1993, Karen Harding, a philosopher wrote a paper, Causality then and now: Al-Ghazali and QM. She remarked: In both cases, and contrary to common sense, objects are viewed as having no inherent properties and no independent existence. In order…
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What exactly is Ghazali's argument here? Please see if you can help.

The text: These are just a few of the inconsistencies of the philosophers pointed out by al-Ghazali in the course of his disputation with regard to the eternity of the world and they could be mentioned here only very briefly, considering the…
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