Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of philosophy Faculty of Law, Theology and Political science Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University

2 Department of philosophy Faculty of, Theology . Tehran university

3 Department of philosophy Faculty of Law, Theology and Political science Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University. Tehran

Abstract



How to see the object and the occurrence of sensational errors is one 
of the leading questions in any epistemological system, including 
Tusi's epistemology. The importance of this case in the opinions of 
Islamic philosophers is due to the fact that the senses and their data 
initiate the process of realizing certain and true wisdom about objects. 
Questions around this case just like the other philosophic matters have 
always been a great worry for Nasir-Aldin Tousi and he's tended and 
paid attention to them in his works. This article tries to express how 
sensational errors occur in his opinion by considering differences 
between emotions and sensational cognition. The negative aspects of 
Tousi's vision towards things expresses that errors do not occur among 
feeling that is related to outward attention, because visions are limited 
to getting placed in the middle of the sight. But the positive aspect of 
 
his opinion expresses that errors are just related to sensational 
knowledge and the judgments made by the wisdom which is earned 
under the influence of the imaginary power. In the other words, the 
stems of errors in the senses and sensational matters are in tangible 
matching with the outward reality that this action is just placed among 
the borders of wisdom.

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