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               meaning.  Or  the  perception          truth,  without  considering
               of rational meaning but not in         anything else. (Sadr ul-Din Shirazi,
               a general way, but in a partial        1989, Vol. 3: 362)

               and  tangible  way.  Hence,               At this level of perception,
               fantastic Perception is specific       the mind abstracts the perceptual
               to  the  personal  and  partial        form from all its features and
               meaning to which imagination           even its partiality. The perceptual
               belong. (Sadr ul-Din Shirazi,          form  here  is  coincident  not

               1989, Vol. 3: 361)                     only  to  the  perceptible,  but
                  In  illusory  perception,  the      also  to  other  objects  which
               human  mind  cuts  off  the            have  in  common  with  the
               tangible form from its properties,     perceptible  in  this  general
               without, of course, cutting off        form. In fact, this level is the
               the  relation  of  the  tangible       level  of  complete  abstraction
               instance to the abstract form.         of the perceptual form. (Ibid)
                  Like the vague image that              Sadr  ul-Din  Shirazi  stated

               is  reflected  in  our  mind  of       that  the  difference  between
               something  we  see  from  afar.        the  intelectual  and  illusory
               Illusory  perception,  although        perceptions is not innate and
               abstracted from the characteristics    did  not  view  the  difference
               of  tangible,  does  not  go           between  the  two  types  in
               beyond detail and can only be          terms of a difference in actual

               applied  to  the  same  object         levels.  Thus,  he  considered
               (Araki, 2004: 76).                     three main levels of perception
                  The fourth level of perception,     including sense, illusion, and
               called intellect, is the perception    reason.  Then  he  coincident
               of  an  object  in  terms  of  its     the  three  level  of  perception
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