Formalization of Knowledge and its Effect on the Theory of Imitative Images: An Analytic-Descriptive Study of Farabi s Thought

According to Farabi, knowledge means the acquisition of form by the mind or the intellect. He also considers the idea of imitative images as an artistic theory which an artist employs in creating images. Therefore, “from” is the link connecting Farabi’s epistemological and philosophical-artistic theories; without the existence of form, neither will knowledge be realized, nor imitative images will gain perfection. In this paper, the writer has tried to discover the relationship between Farabi’s epistemological and artistic theories following an analytic-descriptive method. In doing so, he considers the items listed below to be the most significant purpose that can be followed given their logical order in Farabi’s philosophy:1) Attaining the theory of knowledge
2) Discovering the theory of imitative images and disclosing the content of this theory
3) Understanding the relationship between these two theories
4) Demonstrating that the theory of imitative images is purely based on the formalistic theory of knowledge