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clearer manner. (Sadr ul-Din intelligible form is exist for
Shirazi, 1989, Vol. 3, 278) the intelligent. Thus, if the
He considers the truth of intelligible form has a
perception to be the existence separate existence from the
of the perceived for the intelligent, it is not exist for
perceiver. and proposed the the intelligent, so is not
theory of the union of intelligent intelligible. (Araki, 2004: 72)
and intelligible. On the basis of the theory
According to the theory, of “the union of intelligence,
intelligence, intelligent, and intelligent, and intelligible”,
intelligible have a unitary he believed that in terms of
truth, and distinguishing them gnostic knowledge, the perceptual
is a subjective and conventional faculty, perceiver, and perceived
process. Sadr ul-Din Shirazi’s are not three distinct entities
claim in the theory of union and cannot be so.
is that each intelligible entity What happen in any
is itself an intelligent one, perceptual action is that
and any form that created in existence is created, which
the human’s soul -whether performed by the soul. Such
intelligible or sensible- is one an existence while being the
with its Perceptiver. (Salari, existence of the perceived
2017 : 53) object, is also existence for
According to Sadr ul-Din the perceiving soul. The
Shirazi, if the intelligent and perceiving soul creates this
intelligible are not united, the existence -its own action-
perception is impossible; because using its perceptual faculty.
perception means that the The faculty is indeed nothing
