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Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Defender of philosophy against al-Ghazālī, commentator par excellence on Aristotle, advocate of the unity of the intellect
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Ibn Rushd (Averroes) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | Magisterial |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Infinite at the cosmic scale (the world is eternal, against the Ashʿarite creation-in-time), linear and uni-directional within. Non-deterministic for human agency.
Space
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Substantival, finite, flat, three-dimensional, local — Aristotelian-Ptolemaic.
Matter
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Substantival, conserved through the elements, three-dimensional, local.
Observer
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
The distinctive Averroist doctrine: a single shared intellect (the agent intellect) is the form of all rational souls — hence Observer Number = Singular at the level of the active intellect, even as individual sensitive souls are plural. This is the doctrine Aquinas attacked in "De Unitate Intellectus" and which the Paris condemnations of 1270 and 1277 targeted. Personal metaphysical agency: God as Necessary Being, addressed through philosophical demonstration.
Energy
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Conventional Aristotelian.
Information
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Cosmic-scale: conserved through the eternal world. Personal-identity: non-conserved on the orthodox Averroist reading — individual personal immortality is denied; what persists is the shared intellect.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
The Averroist doctrine of the unity of the intellect was condemned in Paris in 1270 and 1277 as incompatible with personal salvation; the Latin Averroists (Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia) developed it nonetheless. The deeper tension in Averroes' own work is between the philosophical demonstration of conclusions that apparently contradict Scripture (eternity of the world, the unity of the intellect) and his insistence that the truths cannot really conflict. His resolution — that apparent conflict requires allegorical reading of Scripture — committed him to a two-track epistemology that became the foundation of the "double truth" tradition attributed to him by his Christian critics.