The General Concepts from the Viewpoint of Mirza Mehdi Isfahani

The issue of "the general concepts" is one of the issues in epistemology that have been paid attention by scholars and certain epistemological systems have been formed on its basis. As a scholar who tries to form his thoughts on the basis of religious texts, Mirza Isfahani has a different position in this case. Considering his views on knowledge and epistemological discussions, he believes that there is no a third thing between words and meanings which can one call it as concepts, and, because only the external cases are referred to in denotation of the words to the meanings, the words that denote to the generals denote to the external cases, and not to the mental concepts, by taking some qualities into account or not taking them into account. Therefore, believing in a mental world other than this external world is not plausible. In his other views including the issue of "knowledge of God", he offers his discussions with adherence to these bases.