Sentences with phrase «individual analogical»

All accept the Qur» an and the sunnah (Muhammad's example) as foundational but differ on the importance of consensus in collective scholarly reasoning (ijma) and individual analogical reasoning (qiyas).

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And just as significant, I think, he nowhere seems to explain, as he clearly has to explain if «conscious» and «knowing» are analogical, how not only the greatest but even the least possible individual must in some sense be said to be conscious and to know, as well as to be aware and to feel.

Thus Hartshorne holds that the term «feeling,» for instance, can be said to be analogical in this sense because, or insofar as, it applies to all entities of the logical type of individuals, including the unique individual God, but does so in suitably different senses to all the different kinds or levels of individuals, with its sense being infinitely different in its application to God (1962, 140).

But this implies that any psychical concept that is truly analogical must be just as universal in its scope of application as a purely formal term like «relativity,» provided only that this term is taken, as it should be, in the sense in which it alone explicates the meaning of «concrete singular,» whether event or individual.

Only by directly intuiting that psychical concepts apply primarily to the extraordinary individual God can one possibly know them to be variables with a strictly infinite range of values and, therefore, truly analogical.