This non-Descartes person argued for the separation of the soul and body with a thought experiment about a man who affirms his existence without affirming the existence of any of his body parts.
This thinker claimed that God could not be the subject of metaphysics because metaphysics proves the existence of God, and no field can prove the existence of its own subject. This non-Descartes person argued for the separation of the soul and body with a thought experiment about a man who affirms his existence without affirming the existence of any of his body parts. His proof of God says that only God has existence as part of His essence, and thus, everything else is necessarily entailed by God. This creator of the (*) "Falling Man" thought experiment said that he memorized Aristotle's Metaphysics but understood none of it until he read al-Farabi's commentary. He and al-Farabi were attacked for their belief in the world being created outside of time by al-Ghazali in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. For 10 points, name this medieval Islamic philosopher and doctor.
This thinker claimed that God could not be the subject of metaphysics because metaphysics proves the existence of God, and no field can prove the existence of its own subject.
Avicenna [or Ibn Sina or Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Sina] &lt;Bailey&gt;