[Chapter. Continuation of Ibn Sīnā’s discussion of the question of the knowledge of God Most High]

Chapter.
Continuation of Ibn Sīnā’s discussion of the question of the knowledge of God Most High

Ibn Sīnā said, concluding his discussion of knowledge:

“We have explained in other books that we apprehend every form of a sensible object and every imagined form only through a divisible organ.”

He may be answered as follows:

Even if this is true, it is contradicted, on your own principles, by His knowledge of the celestial spheres and stars. They are sensible objects, yet you hold that He knows them as individual entities.

In explaining that we apprehend every form of a sensible object and every imagined form only through a divisible organ, and that what apprehends particulars is not an intellect but a bodily faculty, he said:

“As for particular forms as apprehended by the external senses, in a state of incomplete abstraction and separation