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                       •  Theory Of Contingents                  intelligible sciences and other
                       Due  to  the  expansion  of               contingents. (Ibid, 1994: 151-152)
                       social  relations  and  the                  The  Tabataba'i  believes
                       necessity  of  social  laws,              that social contingent sciences

                       contingent     sciences      were         are  Fact  (Nafs  al-Amr)  i.e.,
                       proposed  in  front  of  real             they do not have any base and
                       sciences that have their self.            do     not    indicate     reality.

                         Explaining contingents in a             Additionally, limits and proofs
                       separate chapter and introducing          cannot  be  established  for
                       its instances including humanities        them,  and  the  container  for

                       and  social  sciences  in  the            their realization is contingent,
                       contemporary  era,  Tabataba'i            which is achieved by practical
                       caused more serious attention             intellect with reflection; (Ibid,

                       to  be  paid  to  this  part  of          1995: 122-124) Of course, he
                       contingent sciences, which can            considers some of the beliefs,
                       be  seen  in  a  sense  in  the           created by the mind, as divine
                       works  of  old  philosophers,             and       religious      practical

                       including  Avicenna.  (Ref:               instructions,  having  a  base
                       Avicenna, 1984: 7)                        within themselves. (Ibid, 1999: 101)
                         Tabataba'i  believes  that  a              According  to  Tabataba'i,

                       group  of  contingents  are               the  only  valid  and  authentic
                       concepts  that  human  creates            practical and valid rulings are
                       to  meet  their  interests  and           those  that  were  formed  after

                       needs  in  their  daily  and              knowing the truth and the real
                       material  lives.  (Tabataba'i,            happiness  of  mankind  and
                       2009a: 127)                               based on the power of realistic

                         He       divides      acquired          reason. (Ibid, 2009b: 195)
                       sciences  into  true  and  valid             Valid cases, whose predicates
                       ones in the general sense i.e.,           are valid, are unreal i.e., their

                       philosophical      and    logical         predicates  do  not  correspond
                                                                 externally,  except  according
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