A Critical Analysis of the Article: ‘A Study of the Silence Approach Against the Theory of Union of the Intelligent and Intelligible’

In a previous scholarly contribution (A1), a critical examination was conducted wherein the foremost arguments substantiating and challenging the theory of the "amalgamation of the intelligent and the intelligible" were scrutinized. Through a meticulous critique, I advanced the proposition that a stance of reticence should be adopted concerning this theory. The approach characterized by reticence has encountered critique in another scholarly investigation (A2), wherein the author endeavored to salvage the "mutual correlation" argument from the perceived challenges presented in my article. In the present article, upon scrutinizing A2, I have demonstrated: 1-A2 effectively abandons the "mutual correlation" argument and advances alternative contentions not articulated by Sadra himself; 2-these contentions prove inadequate in substantiating the postulated unity of matter and form integral to the theory of the "amalgamation of the intelligent and the intelligible"; 3-none of the objections posited by A2 find incorporation within A1. It has been clarified that being non-material is not a condition of being intellectualized, and this matter does not contradict being non-material of perceptual forms. It is also known that the condition of being actually intellectualized is being non-material substance.