Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Gholam Hossein Tavakoly

Abstract

In both Christian and Islamic world, some writers have accused averroes (Ibn rushd) and his followers (averroists) of believing to and defending of double truth: that philosophical facts and religious facts despite their inconsistency can both be true.  But this charg is true or is a mere accusation? This article examines this matter. We should distinguish between for meaning of double truth: a) the idea that some people can believe in a proposition and others are justified in believing to its contrary. B) The idea that a person can in a given time believe to a proposition and in another time approve its contrary. C) The idea that a person epistemologically is justified to believe in a proposition and at the same time accept its contrary. D) The idea that, ontologically, in the field of reality the truth is twin, I. E ، both A and its contrary are in reality correct. We will prove that none of the averroists agree with D, and a few of them confirmC, and almost all of them approve A and B.

Keywords

• double truth
• philosophical truth
• religious facts
• contradiction