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“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

— Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

The Book of Healing

Ibn Sina, the great Persian polymath, articulates the principle that true knowledge requires causal understanding.

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