Document Type : Research

Author

• Majid Zamani Alavijeh

دانشکده الهیات دانشگاه قم

Abstract

Mirza Qomi's explanation about practical reason is important in three ways: (1) He is considered one of the most serious critics of Aristotelian logic and the way of reasoning in this logic, and he has followed a different path from the defenders of this logic. (2) The logic governing Mirza Qomi's thought is considered a psychological logic. and (3) by presenting a different explanation of the nature of reason, he considers imitation as a type of reason and opens the chapter of reference to imitation in practical matters.
It is shown that Mirzai Qomi considers every persuasive thing as a reason. By deviating from formalism in Aristotelian logic, Mirza believes in the multiplicity of forms in argument and believes that the manner of the mujtahid's reasoning determines the form of the argument a posteriori; Therefore, as a priori, no form can be accepted as the form of argument. According to Mirza, there is no logical certainty and logical certainty is also a kind of psychological certainty. If absolute certainty is a psychological matter, three requirements arise: (1) The distinction between specific suspicion and general suspicion disappears and all suspicions become equally valid. Therefore, (2) there is no difference in the validity of suspicions from which source they come? and (3) persuasive imitation has no difference from the epistemological point of view with psychological certainty, and rather it is considered a partial imitation of certainty; Therefore (4) we can use imitation in practical matters.

Keywords

• Mirzai Qomi
• psychological logic
• logical reason
• Criticism of Aristotelian logic

Main Subjects

• Philosophy of Logic