Taṣdīq

تصديقtaṣdīq

Preferred translation
assent
Rendered in this work as
assents
Grammatical variants
assents
Technical sense
the judging affirmation or denial of one thing of another
Distinguish from
idhʿān (acceptance) — idhʿān is acceptance that a predicate does or does not obtain; taṣdīq is the logical act of assent paired with conception. The English ‘assent’ serves both, but the Arabic terms are distinct.

General Technical Meaning

Assent is cognition involving affirmative or negative judgment concerning a relation.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, assents are paired with conceptions as notional or estimative cognitions through which the human being seeks completion; the logical distinction between assent and conception remains intact.

Source: Bidāyat al-Ḥikmah · Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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Canonical address: /glossary/tasdiq/