Bi-l-dhāt wa-bi-l-ʿaraḍ

بالذات وبالعرضbi-l-dhāt wa-bi-l-ʿaraḍ

Preferred translation
essentially / accidentally
Rendered in this work as
  • by accident
  • by-itself
  • essential
  • essentially
Technical sense
what belongs to a thing through itself, against what belongs to it only derivatively

General Technical Meaning

Bi-l-dhāt marks what belongs essentially or in virtue of a thing itself; its controlled contrast is bi-l-ʿaraḍ, accidentally or derivatively.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses the per-se/per-accidens distinction to explain how error and practical falsehood can be derivative while action remains oriented to truth. The distinction does not erase the practical true/false contrast.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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Canonical address: /glossary/bi-al-dhat-wa-bi-al-arad/