Semantic Analysis of Metaphysical Concepts: The Combination of "Special Possibility" with Two "General Possibility" Using Conceptual Blending Theory, Case Study

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1 PhD student in Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, University of Tehran, Faculty of Theology

2 Professor, University of Tehran, Faculty of Theology

10.22061/orj.2022.1645

Abstract

The combination of specific possibility and two common possibilities has been considered as difficult positions in Islamic philosophy. The first aspect is explaining how to construct the concept of special possibility and the second problem is the results of the presented explanations. The first problem is that if a particular possibility is derived from two common possibilities, the possibility theorems are analyzed into two theorems. The second problem is that if a particular possibility is derived from a common possibility, then, in relation to the common possibility, its relation to the subject itself becomes virtual, while the relation of a particular possibility to nature is a real relation. The negativity of the meaning of a particular possibility also causes the application of the possibility in possible positive cases to be challenged. In this paper, through interdisciplinary studies and using the theory of blending, it became clear that in the construction of special possibility, some semantic components of common possibility are transferred to the space of special possibility and some components and accessories are not thrown into the mixed space. On the one hand, the conceptual blending with the integration of the slabs turns them into a single stripping. On the other hand, due to the special function of conceptual blending, the virtualness of the relation in the common possibility is not transferred to the specific possibility, and thus the relation of the special possibility to its subject is real. By creating a positive meaning in the mixed space of a particular possibility, other forms - based on the negativity of the particular possibility - are also eliminated.

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