An Analysis of the Theory of Probability Calculus in the Inductive Geometry of the Holy Quran Based on the Shahid Sadr’s Thought

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1 شهرک زین الدین خ پاییزان خ ربانی نژاد ک۶ بلوک یاس پ۲۴

2 qom, Iran

3 قم، ایران

Abstract

One of the most popular methods in the human epistemology is induction. Induction means a view to examining the particulars and reaching the general judgment found in the particulars; that is, it has been used from particulars to general, as a scientific and experimental method in natural and experimental sciences. The Holy Quran has used the method of induction in explaining the monotheistic teachings along with the argumentative and polemical arguments in proving the rububi (providing) monotheism of God, the resurrection and the divinity of the source of the Holy Quran. The Almighty God has used this easy-to-understand method along with other methods to create knowledge in the audience. Shahid Sadr is one of the most prominent Islamic thinkers who could prove the certainty of induction and the correctness of the result by proposing a new theory called “intrinsic view”. He could analyze the inductive method with the help of ijmali (summary-fashioned) knowledge in the science of the principles of jurisprudence and probability calculation. The present article studies this new method in the field of principles of Quranic inductions with a descriptive-analytical method and by using the inductive model of Shahid Sadr, evaluates the induction used in the divine existence as justified and certain argument

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The Quran and Science
Volume 15, Issue 29 - Serial Number 29
November 2022
Pages 212-240

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  • Receive Date: 04 June 2021
  • Revise Date: 10 August 2021
  • Accept Date: 11 October 2021

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