An examination of the reduction of the principality and the fictitiousness to factual truth and falsehood

According to the current view regarding the principality of existence and the fictitiousness of quiddity, these two properties of principality and fictitiousness can be reduced to essential truth and accidental truth on external reality. Hence, not only the quiddity does not have any share of reality in the external world, but also it doesn’t represent anything beyond itself. According to my view, such interpretation of the concept of principality of existence cannot be documented and also clearly contradicts Sadra’s own words on this matter. The origin of this misconception can be found in the way the issue has been raised, discussed and argued for by Sadra as well as presupposing of a kind of entailment between truth and external realization by the proponents of the above interpretation. I will also show that regardless of its connection with Sadra, this interpretation as an independent philosophical theory in its own right might oppose our common sense intuition and be in need of sufficient arguments and more importantly and decisively, lacks the necessary internal coherence and involves certain unreasonable implications.