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is ignorant of intellectual speculations should be ignorant of grammar. Rather, every
art has people who
have obtained excellence and preeminence in it, even though stupidity and ignorance may
characterize
them in other arts. The arguments in elementary matters of mathematics are demonstrative whereas
those
in theology (or metaphysics) are based on conjecture. This point is clear to those who
have studied the
matter deeply for themselves‟.
If such a person is fixed in this belief which he has chosen out of respect for authority (taqlid),
he is not
moved by this argument but is carried by strength of passion, love of vanity and the desire to be
thought
clever to persist in his good opinion of the philosophers with regard to all the sciences.
This is a great drawback, and because of it those who devote themselves eagerly to the mathematical
art has people who
have obtained excellence and preeminence in it, even though stupidity and ignorance may
characterize
them in other arts. The arguments in elementary matters of mathematics are demonstrative whereas
those
in theology (or metaphysics) are based on conjecture. This point is clear to those who
have studied the
matter deeply for themselves‟.
If such a person is fixed in this belief which he has chosen out of respect for authority (taqlid),
he is not
moved by this argument but is carried by strength of passion, love of vanity and the desire to be
thought
clever to persist in his good opinion of the philosophers with regard to all the sciences.
This is a great drawback, and because of it those who devote themselves eagerly to the mathematical