BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The Monotheistic conquests brought the Arab Muslims into contact with various types of people and cultures that challenged their assumed Monotheistic method of thinking. ... "The group believed in pluralistic insight of philosophical and religious discourse where man's chief clue to the knowledge of the world must be the knowledge of himself."[Rah]6 Cognition, they said, may be acquired in three ways: The Method of Five Senses: these are the natural and therefore the most typical method of acquiring knowledge. ... Akin to the two previous ways is the meth...

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As he grew and learned from the world around him and from Socrates, Plato developed his own unique style of philosophy, based around the Socratic method. Plato considered philosophy to be a systematic, rigorous method of of constantly questioning and examining everything in one's surroundings. ... His main method of teaching was the socratic method. This is a method where the teacher asks students questions to get to an answer. ... In his writing, Phaedrus he states that one needs to alter one's form and style of discourse so that it might correspond to a particular audience: [One...

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Rather, philosophy should be integrated with the rest of the sciences through the method of rational judgment. ... Descartes" method and theory on knowledge was well planned and carefully thought out ...

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