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To: ohioWfan


Yes, and let us remember one of the more entertaining philosophical debates in history:


"The Incoherence of the Philosophers" (al-Ghazali)

answered by........

"The Incoherence of the Incoherence" (Ibn Rushd, aka Averroes)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incoherence_of_the_Philosophers


87 posted on 02/22/2007 6:55:40 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: Enchante
My daughter has written some scholarly papers on neoplatonism in Arabic medieval philosophers, and referenced that very debate.

(As a coherent philosopher, she was on the side of Averroes. :)

104 posted on 02/22/2007 7:02:46 PM PST by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops!!)
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