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Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do. God knows particulars as their Creator whereas humans know them as a privileged creations of God might know them.

— Averroes to Averroes in Voices of Islam: Voices of change (2007)

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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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Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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