categories: first, that the divisions are actual and finite in number; second, that they are actual and infinite in number; third, that they are not actual, but the divisions that can occur are finite in number; and fourth, that they are not actual, but the divisions that can occur are infinite in number.”

He said: “The first is the view of the majority of the kalām theologians; the second is the view of al-Nazzām; and the third is the view of some later scholars.” And this