This book contrasts the impossibility of the “changing of genera,” such as blackness becoming a cooking pot, with the possibility of a staff becoming a snake. A reductio in this book that hinges on Jupiter and Saturn’s periods of rotation was repurposed in a later argument against “actual infinities.” Before Peter Olivi or Jean Buridan, this book used the example of a man gazing at two identical dates to suggest that God could have chosen any time to create the world. This book identifies the idea that God only knows universals, the theory of the world’s “pre-eternity,” and the denial of bodily resurrection as the three “irreligious” beliefs among 20 propositions. William Lane Craig traced the KCA to this Asharite book, which was rebutted by Ibn Rushd. For 10 points, Aristotelians like Ibn Sina are the target of what treatise by al-Ghazali? ■END■
ANSWER: The Incoherence of the Philosophers [or Tahāfut al-Falāsifa’; prompt on the Incoherence or the Tahāfut] (The KCA is the Kalam Cosmological Argument.)
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