The Mediators of Cognition in Allameh Tabatabyi's viewpoint

The epistemology is the science which argues about the human knowledge, evaluation of its different types and benchmarking their truth or falsity. Although this topic, as an independent and a branch of philosophy has no antiquity in the history of science, but most scholars have never failed to recognize the issue of cognition, its value and importance and addressing this topic is not limited only to recent decades. In the Islamic philosophy and logic also epistemology is discussed and distributed in various aspects and most of their nature is ontological not the epistemological. AllamehTabatabayi in his works, sometimes directly and sometimes during other philosophical debate and in the manner of the ancients, has been introduced the issues of epistemology and cognitive mediators. The present study investigates the cognitive mediators from the Allameh Tabatabyi’s viewpoint.He, like other scholars of Transcendent Wisdom, endeavored, following the Sunnah of the Prophet and the Imams, to regard the interconnectedness of mysticism, philosophy and the Koran, in terms of understanding the truth and to use and align, at the same time, the three means of knowledge such as religious (oracle), intellect and heart. Based on the Allameh’s view the mediators of cognition are feeling, intellect, instinct and intuition which also encompass oracle, inspiration and dream.