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11b In Terms of Being Based on Transmitted Knowledge
It is worth keeping in mind that in terms of being based on transmitted knowledge, there is no difference[13] between a religious worldview and our own scientific worldview.
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The difference lies rather in the nature of the prophets who set the worldviews in motion. Our own great scientists and thinkers may have made no explicit claim to supra-human sanction, but their followers see them as true prophets.
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Muhyiddīn Ibn ʿArabi, Presentation of 30 Texts
[13] O yes, there is an essential, structural difference! This statement can be misunderstood, even if he writes i.o. to relativize it:
”In terms of being based on transmitted knowledge”