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`Certainly. The reply is that, if the man in doubt says, `I am in doubt‟, and
does not specify the topic about which he is in doubt, it may be said to him,
`You are like a sick man who says, `I am sick‟, without specifying his disease,
and yet asks for a remedy; he has to be told, `There does not exist⁻ any
remedy for disease in general but only for specific diseases like headache,
diarrhea, and so forth‟ „. Similarly the man in doubt must specify what he is in
doubt about. If he specifies the topic, I show him the truth about it by weighing
it by the five standards which everyone who understands them acknowledges
to be the true balance on which men rely whenever they weigh anything. The
balance and the soundness of the weighing are understood in just the same
way as the student of arithmetic understands both arithmetic and the fact that
the teacher of arithmetic knows the subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have
explained that in The just Balance in the compass of twenty pages, and it may
be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a
does not specify the topic about which he is in doubt, it may be said to him,
`You are like a sick man who says, `I am sick‟, without specifying his disease,
and yet asks for a remedy; he has to be told, `There does not exist⁻ any
remedy for disease in general but only for specific diseases like headache,
diarrhea, and so forth‟ „. Similarly the man in doubt must specify what he is in
doubt about. If he specifies the topic, I show him the truth about it by weighing
it by the five standards which everyone who understands them acknowledges
to be the true balance on which men rely whenever they weigh anything. The
balance and the soundness of the weighing are understood in just the same
way as the student of arithmetic understands both arithmetic and the fact that
the teacher of arithmetic knows the subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have
explained that in The just Balance in the compass of twenty pages, and it may
be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a