Islamic Mystical Dialetheism: Resolving the Paradox of God’s Unknowability and Ineffability

Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. Resorting to either metaphysical dialetheism or semantic dialetheism may seem like an appropriate resolve to certain theological contradictions. At least for those who concede to theological contradictions, and take dialetheism seriously. Ho...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophia (Ramat Gan) 2022-07, Vol.50 (3), p.925-964
1. Verfasser: Ahsan, Abbas
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. Resorting to either metaphysical dialetheism or semantic dialetheism may seem like an appropriate resolve to certain theological contradictions. At least for those who concede to theological contradictions, and take dialetheism seriously. However, I demonstrate that neither of these types of dialetheism would serve to be amenable in resolving an Islamic theological contradiction. This is a theological contradiction that I refer to as ‘the paradox of an unknowable and ineffable God’. As a result of this, I propose an alternative type of dialetheism which aims to resolve the paradox of an unknowable and ineffable God. I call this type of dialetheism, ‘mystical dialetheism’.
ISSN:0048-3893
1574-9274
DOI:10.1007/s11406-021-00452-1