Ma`rifat Falsafi

To find a criterion to show the truth of certain (jazmi )and uncertain (danni )religious statements is one of the most basic and also one of the most difficult problems of epistemology .According to the paper, certainty (jazm )or normal knowledge is sufficient for knowing a religion .Based on this approach (namely sufficiency of certainty or normal knowledge )what is the criterion for the truth of such knowledge? To answer this question, one can enumerate many criteria for evaluating certain and uncertain knowledge . The paper studies these criteria of which the most important are the doctrine of authority in religious epistemology and Shaheed Sadr’s strategy in solving the problem of induction. These criteria can be used only at times when one cannot base the certain, uncertain and sure (yaqini( )in its general sense )religious statements on sure (in its special sense) statements .Otherwise there is no need for such criteria .According to the paper, basing the former on the later is possible.