The Role of Illusion in Perceptive Errors In Mulla Sadra's View

In Mulla Sadra’s view, knowledge and perception are among abstract notions, and the extent of knowledge is directly related to the strength and weakness of abstraction. In Mulla Sadra’s view, the faculty of illusion is the very reason added to the sensory or imaginational details. According to this definition, thus, illusive perception essentially leads to reduction of abstraction and, accordingly, to weakness of perception. Besides, among the features of illusive perception is indecisiveness and lack of dogmatism. In other words, illusion and illusive perception does not achieve certainty and right knowledge. In addition, illusion is the ruler of the minute animal faculties and tries to take most of those faculties and fulfilling the highest points of desire and anger. Thus, it is in conflict with reason and rational perception, and reason is seeking to limit and modify those faculties. Therefore, the discussion on illusion and illusive perceptions is related to the discussion on error in perception. Here, the research method is descriptive-analytical.