THE SOUL-BODY PROBLEM: THE INCONSISTENT TETRAD AND ITS RESOLUTION IN SADR AL-DIN SHIRAZI’S PERSPECTIVE
Historia scientiarum March 15, 2025 Ibrahim Baghirov
The “inconsistent tetrad” refers to the four propositions commonly used in the philosophy of mind to address the issue of the mind-body relation. As the name suggests, although each of these propositions may individually be true, only three of them can be true at the same time, while one must always be false. For instance: 1) The soul is a non-material substance; 2) The body is a material...