عوارض ذاتيه و اشكالات چهارگانه

Essential Accident and the Four-Fold Problems

Essential accidents are among the complicated issues of the vast domain of philosophical-logical epistemology. In this paper, after a review of the meaning of the essential accident and its distinctive features from the viewpoint of philosophers such as Aristotle, Farabi, and Ibn-Sina, the writer poses the problems which are related to essential accidents. On the whole, two objections are advanced against the meaning of essential accidents and two more against its distinctive features. On of the conceptual problems is related to determining the domain of the constitutive essential. It seems that in their attempt to solve this problem, philosophers have been caught in a vicious circle. The problems related to the distinctive feature of essential accidents have also been introduced through resorting to violating examples from mathematics and philosophy.