The Incoherence of the Incoherence

The Incoherence of the Incoherence Questions and Answers

In The Incoherence of the Incoherence, what does Averroes mean when he says that knowledge and the object of knowledge are identical?

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What is the difference an agent by nature and an agent by will (or choice or deliberation) for Averroes in The Incoherence of the Incoherence? How does Averroes show that God could not be an agent by either of the senses of the term agent?

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What are the four types of causes for Averroes in The Incoherence of the Incoherence? How do they function to move something from potency to actuality?

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In The Incoherence of the Incoherence, why, for Averroes, could God not have caused the existence of the world in time?

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In The Incoherence of the Incoherence, how does Averroes understand God or the First Cause to be the cause of the world?

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