Al Ghazali · Theology

Does Fire Burn?

Al-Ghazali’s startling argument that fire does not really cause cotton to burn - that what we call cause and effect is only God’s habit, anticipating Hume by seven centuries.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that al-Ghazali denied necessary causal connection. Reconstruct his fire-and-cotton argument and what he put in causation’s place, in your own words.

Leads to David Hume.

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