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The Asharites have expressed a very peculiar opinion, both with regard to reason and religion; about this problem they have explained it in a way in which religion has not, but have adopted quite an opposite method.

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The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.

If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy.

FM 44 as cited in: Oliver Leaman (2002)

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.

Ralph Lerner (1974)

This is one of the most intricate problems of religion.

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