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Nonetheless, fiqh can serve as an aid in coming to understand divine law insofar as it enables us to obtain further, dialectical insight into that which transcends positive law; discursive reasoning and rational understanding, in other words, and in this case intrinsic to the Islamic science of jurisprudence, are part and parcel of the process of acquiring nonpropositional insight into divine law.

Maldives Constitution Drafting Delayed Over Issue of Shariah Howard M. Friedman 2007

It also gives no account of naming or nonpropositional attitudes.

Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy Caston, Victor 2007

Were we to apply these arguments with logical consistency we would be forced to say that virtually everything we call a belief, with the exception of some mathematical statements, some logical statements, and some empirical statements, are nonpropositional quasi-propositions.

A Rough Theory of Religious Doctrine: Second Part of the Second Part 2005

Were we to apply these arguments with logical consistency we would be forced to say that virtually everything we call a belief, with the exception of some mathematical statements, some logical statements, and some empirical statements, are nonpropositional quasi-propositions.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

First, the nonpropositional view says that for Hume a moral evaluation does not express any proposition or state any fact.

Hume's Moral Philosophy Cohon, Rachel 2004

I think Draper means to abstract from specific epistemic situations: we are to think of the plausibility of a hypothesis as depending not on considerations such as the specific evidence (propositional and nonpropositional) I may have for or against it, but on more general considerations such as its scope and specificity, and perhaps how it fits in with what is generally known (a hypothesis entailing that the world is flat wouldn't be plausible).

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

The computational morality, on which optimists rely, dismisses the nonpropositional and unprogrammed elements in morality altogether, falsely confident that these elements can all be ticketed and brought into the computations.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

Sharī‘ah is like the Platonic Form in being universal, abstract, indeterminate, and nonpropositional, and thus cannot directly serve as a normative standard.

Maldives Constitution Drafting Delayed Over Issue of Shariah Howard M. Friedman 2007

As a transcendent nonpropositional guide for action, and despite its integral relation to Islamic law, Sharī‘ah should not be confused or conflated with any of its propositional constructions by way of fiqh, or any political proposal for a putatively Islamic state.

Maldives Constitution Drafting Delayed Over Issue of Shariah Howard M. Friedman 2007