A Critique of A Priori Conceptual Relations in the Book, Lexicon of Islamic Philosophy, By Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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Assistant professor, Information Management and Islamic Documents Research Center, Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, Qom, Iran.

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Using the library-based and descriptive-analytical method of research, the present study is a fundamental and applied kind of research, which critically seeks to clarify the errors in the book Lexicon of Islamic philosophy in the section on a priori semantic relationships. In some cases, the errors arise from a misconception of the relevant philosophical concepts or confusion of Illuminationist, Peripatetic, and Transcendent schools of philosophy, and in other cases from improper deployment of the rules of lexicography. There are mistakes in this lexicographical work as for the systematic structure of philosophy, compliance with the formal rules of lexicography, and the conceptual relations among philosophical terms, which need to be corrected, since it has been translated into Arabic and English and is accepted by some academic centers as a base for storing, searching, and retrieving information. Moreover, it has been welcomed by other countries. This research elucidates some of the main problems with this work only in the section on a priori conceptual relations, offering solutions to provide a more enhanced account of semantic relations. I hope these are considered in the next edition of the work and this article marks the beginning of serious criticisms and reviews of lexicons

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