Occasionalist philosophers who used methods of this name based their views on an atomism in which the atoms only acquire properties when "accidents" are created within them.
The major innovation of the Jewish theology of Saadia Gaon was its incorporation of arguments known by this name. Occasionalist philosophers who used methods of this name based their views on an atomism in which the atoms only acquire properties when "accidents" are created within them. The conclusions of scholars who use those methods of this name are critiqued with the conclusion that God cannot be defined using positive attributes in (*) Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides. An argument of this name was re-popularized in Christian apologetics in 1979 by William Lane Craig. For 10 points, give this Arabic word for scientific apologetics methods, such as a "cosmological argument" for the existence of God.
The major innovation of the Jewish theology of Saadia Gaon was its incorporation of arguments known by this name.
(Ilm al-)Kalam