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This book contrasts the impossibility of the “changing of genera,” such as blackness becoming a cooking pot, with the possibility of a staff becoming a snake. A reductio in this book that hinges on Jupiter and Saturn’s periods of rotation was repurposed in a later argument against “actual infinities.” Before Peter Olivi or Jean Buridan, this book used the example of a man gazing at two identical dates (10[1])to suggest that God could have chosen any time (10[1])to create the world. This book identifies the idea that God only knows universals, the theory of the world’s “pre-eternity,” (10[1])and the denial of bodily resurrection as the three “irreligious” beliefs among 20 propositions. (10[1])William Lane Craig traced the KCA to this Asharite book, which was rebutted (10[1])by Ibn Rushd. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])Aristotelians (10[1])like Ibn Sina (10[1])are the target of what treatise (10[4])by al-Ghazali? (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

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