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Incoherence, which he called The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahâfut al-tahâfut).
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Incoherence is babbling and nonsensical, I don’t think you are capable.
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Though Ghazali was an Asharite and avowedly anti-philosophical it is notable--as pointed out by Ibn Rushd Averroes), in his bitterly entitled Incoherence of the Incoherence)--that he refutes the falasifa on their own terms, by employing philosophical models of his own.
Al-Ghazali Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Though Ghazali was an Asharite and avowedly anti-philosophical it is notable--as pointed out by Ibn Rushd Averroes), in his bitterly entitled Incoherence of the Incoherence)--that he refutes the falasifa on their own terms, by employing philosophical models of his own.
Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Today's word in leftwing economic theory is "Incoherence".
Latest Articles 2008
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Mitt Romney, no stranger to lofty philosophical issues, was spotted on the banks of the Great Salt Lake last Sunday working his way through "The Incoherence of the Incoherence," the seminal work by the 12th-century Muslim philosopher Averroes.
Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011
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The 11th-century Persian theologian al-Ghazali did not attack "rationalism" in his critique of philosophers; rather, in his scathing "Incoherence of the Philosophers," he set out to prove that the philosophers weren't rational enough.
The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009
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In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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Al-Ghazâlî describes the Incoherence of the Philosophers as a “refutation” (radd) of the philosophical movement (Ghazâlî 1959, 18 = 2000, 61), and this has contributed to the erroneous assumption that he opposed Aristotelianism and rejected its teachings.
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Incoherence does not necessarily add up to eye-opening.
Poll: Of All Candidates, The One Most People Can Relate To Is ... Hillary! 2009
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