The Exposition of Epistemic Fundamentalism Using the Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy

In Islamic philosophy and epistemology, intuitive knowledge is the basis of all knowledge. In a general classification, knowledge is divided into two kinds: intuitive and acquired. Due to the identicalness of the known scientific and objective existence in intuitive knowledge, there is no error in it. Although the scientific and objective existence is not the same in acquired knowledge, it can be argued that a large part of acquired knowledge goes back to intuitive knowledge. The reduction of theoretical knowledge to the self-evident and the return of all self-evident ideas and affirmations to intuitive knowledge make us consider intuitive knowledge as the origin of all knowledge. The universality of the acquired knowledge is consistent with the particularity of their origins (the intuitive knowledge), since signification of multiple references is an intrinsic property of knowledge and results from knowledge of high level perfection. In addition, the correctness of the universality of the indication of acquired knowledge in an intuitive form is understandable. Therefore, the edifice of certain knowledge is built in the thoughts of Islamic philosophers and epistemologists. This method of reconstruction of the edifice of knowledge is called epistemic fundamentalism, whose basic foundation in transcendental philosophy is intuitive knowledge.