The Mental Existence, Memory and Complicated Arguments

Some objections to the mental existence that are proposed by the western philosophers are almost unknown to Muslim philosophers and therefore have not received flawless response yet. For example, the complicated formulae objection, being one of the most important and difficult of them, says that since no man can imagine the complicated things, they cannot be in our minds. The mental existence difficulties arising from the complicated things are of several kinds. Sometimes we must remember a complicated thing by means of memory and imagine it in our minds. Sometimes too we must first imagine a complicated argument, that is so long, in our minds to then have logical certainty about it. And sometimes too a complicated argument is so long that no ordinary man can imagine its details in his entire life and therefore it is only of computer-assisted proof. We will investigate here the very three kinds – that are connected with memory – and will try to analyze them mostly based on the views of Muslim thinkers. After criticizing the actual and potential views of Muslim philosophers, we will propose our own views about the three kinds in the end. On the suitable occasions, we will response to the possible objections too.