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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 a… - Averroes
" "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.
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About Averroes
ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (14 April 1126 – 10 December 1198), known as Ibn Rushd, Latinized Averroës, was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, a great master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics and Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.
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Native Name:
ابن رُشد
Alternative Names:
Averroës
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Ibn Rushd
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Averrhoes
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Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd
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Averrhoës
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