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- W4289720199 abstract "This study considers powers, natures, and possibility as they appear in the logical, physical, and metaphysical writings of Avicenna (980–1037), one of the foremost physicians and philosophers of the medieval Islamic world. It is argued that Avicenna maintained the “opacity of powers.” The opacity of powers refers to an epistemological position concerning the limits of empirical methods of investigation and the consequent limits on what one can know about the specific powers of the various natural kinds that populate the world. More precisely, the thesis is that while empirical methods can provide one with knowledge <italic>that</italic> certain kinds of things possess specific powers, one cannot know the <italic>what</italic> and <italic>wherefore</italic> of those powers. Despite an inability to know the causal mechanisms that explains why powers do what they do, Avicenna still believes that empirical methods provide sufficient knowledge about powers to allow for “normal science.” Avicenna’s position, it is suggested, initiated a move toward instrumentalism among post-Avicennan philosophers and scientists in the medieval Islamic world." @default.
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- W4289720199 title "The Power of Possibility" @default.
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