What is it about?
One of the epistemological results emerging from this initial study, is that the different forms of co-relational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyās represent an innovative and sophisticated form of reasoning that not only provide new epistemological insights of legal reasoning in general but they also furnish a fine-grained pattern for parallel reasoning that can be deployed in a wide range of problem-solving contexts and that does not seem to reduce to the standard forms of analogical argumentation studied in contemporary philosophy of science
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Why is it important?
The main claim is that a dialectical framework provides the right instrument to stress three of the most salient features of this form of inference: (1) the interaction of heuristic with logical steps, (2) the dynamics underlying the meaning-explanation of the terms involved (3) the unfolding of parallel reasoning as similarity in action. They display what we take to be the main epistemological idea behind the qiyās, namely: the open texture of the extension of normative statements subject to this kind of parallel reasoning
Perspectives
In fact, we are convinced that a comparative study between contemporary paradigms for analogical reasonig such as Bartha’s argumentative approach and the qiyās-approach, will be beneficial for the development of a general framework of parallel reasoning. The dialogical setting provides a bridge to launch such a study.
Professor Shahid Rahman
Communaute d'Universites et d'Etablissements Lille Nord de France
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This page is a summary of: UNFOLDING PARALLEL REASONING IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, March 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0957423917000091.
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