TY - JOUR ID - 69581 TI - Experimentation in Avicenna's Philosophy by Referring to Its Practical Application in His Works on Natural Sciences JO - Philosophy and Kalam JA - JITP LA - en SN - 2008-9422 AU - fadaei, roohollah AU - Akbari, Reza AD - graduate student in master of Islamic philosophy and theology, faculty of theosophy, Islamic teachings and guidance, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran. AD - professor of Islamic philosophy and theology, faculty of theosophy, Islamic teachings and guidance, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 51 IS - 2 SP - 245 EP - 260 KW - Avicenna KW - Fallibility of Experimental Knowledge KW - Experimental Method KW - Practical Application of Experimentation KW - Systematic Observation DO - 10.22059/jitp.2018.245808.522984 N2 - Avicenna, beside his theoretical discussions about experimentation, practically applied his experimental method to natural sciences studies such as medicine, biology, and meteorology. His theoretical discussions subsume propositions concerning the conditions under which experimental knowledge is attained, the components of this knowledge and its functions. Some of these propositions are as follows: necessity of recurrent observations for acquiring experimental knowledge, certainty plus conditional universality of such knowledge, and its role as demonstrative premises. Investigating the application of his theory in natural sciences propound two new features which were not elaborated in the theoretical discussions: fallibility of experimental knowledge and necessity of systematic observation. This research, using the analytic method and referring to both philosophical and scientific works of Avicenna, clarifies that a comprehensive definition of experimentation is dependent on considering extracted points from practical application of experimental knowledge, beside its theoretical components UR - https://jitp.ut.ac.ir/article_69581.html L1 - https://jitp.ut.ac.ir/article_69581_ce686f25d97da5efd6ab6421ba594460.pdf ER -