according to mulla sadra in his famous work, al-asfar , god’s pre-knowledge is a set of epistemic forms which are (1) inseparable from his essence, (2) uncreated, (3) beyond the universe, (4) devoid of real possibility, (5) eternal per se, and (6) extant by his extance. tabatabayi in nihayat al-hilmah believes that the term, “inseparable”, in (1) does not mean “out of essence”; otherwise, (1) w...

Abstract This paper examines the terminology related to demons in Jubilees. It argues that important nuances have been lost process of translation. Specifically, it original Hebrew Jubilees always used רוחות refer demons. reexamines cases which Ethiopic and/or Latin translations would appear contradict this conclusion (i.e., Jub. 7:27; 10:1–2) light textual evidence from Book Asaf, Byzantine ch...

2 c 2 , then the same argument shows c 0 2 < b 2. Thus b 3 c 2 .Let c 3 be another element of D a covered by c 2. If f(c 3 ; b 3) = b 3 , we have f(c 3 ; b 2) b 3 and f(c 3 ; b 2) c 2 , thus f(c 3 ; b 2) 2 fb 3 ; c 2 g; but this is impossible. Therefore f(c 3 ; b 3) = c 3 , and b 3 > d, since otherwise we would have b 3 = d, and by (4), f(c 3 ; b 3) = d 6 = c 3. Now f(b 3 ; c 3) f(b 3 ; c 2) = ...

In the consistent histories formulation of quantum theory, the probabilistic predictions and retrodictions made from observed data depend on the choice of a consistent set. We show that this freedom allows the formalism to retrodict several contradictory propositions which correspond to orthogonal commuting projections and which all have probability one. We also show that the formalism makes co...

Abstract. In this letter, we analyse the following apparent paradox: As has been recently proved by Hastings [1], under a general set of conditions, if a local Hamiltonian has a spectral gap above its (unique) ground state (GS), all connected equal-time correlation functions of local operators decay exponentially with distance. On the other hand, statistical mechanics provides us with examples ...