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translation by Prof. Jackson from Oxford U. Press, Karachi 2002. (ed.) Note that books 2, 4 are
works that are not available.
5[7] This book is also available on the site in two English translations. (ed.)
really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for
knowledge and in the end be content with such feeble and emaciated
knowledge, while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the
sciences! These claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing into
both external and internal features of their views. All they amounted to was a
deception of the ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the need for
an „instructor‟. Their further arguments to show that there is no need for
instruction by theological reasoning are strong and unanswerable until one
tries to help them to prove the need for an „instructor‟ by saying, `Give us
some examples of his knowledge and of his "instruction".‟ Then the exponent
is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted this difficulty to me‟, he says, `I
works that are not available.
5[7] This book is also available on the site in two English translations. (ed.)
really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for
knowledge and in the end be content with such feeble and emaciated
knowledge, while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the
sciences! These claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing into
both external and internal features of their views. All they amounted to was a
deception of the ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the need for
an „instructor‟. Their further arguments to show that there is no need for
instruction by theological reasoning are strong and unanswerable until one
tries to help them to prove the need for an „instructor‟ by saying, `Give us
some examples of his knowledge and of his "instruction".‟ Then the exponent
is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted this difficulty to me‟, he says, `I