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Today's episode will be an interview about Avero waves

with Richard C. Taylor, who is a professor of philosophy

at Marquette University.

Hi Richard.

Hi, Peter.

So thanks for coming on to talk about Veroaves.

We're going to focus on the extent to which his philosophy is consistent with the Islamic

religion and whether he himself thought there might be tensions between philosophy and Islam.

Perhaps you could start by addressing his use in a work that I've already talked about in an

earlier episode, the so-called decisive treatise he actually uses a phrase

truth does not contradict truth and I was thinking maybe we could start by

having you say something about that.

That's an interesting way to start, I have to say,

but I want to start earlier with the title,

because I don't like the title decisive treatise.

I think right from the beginning it causes a kind of misunderstanding of what the treatise is about.

So I take it more literally following a Tunisian scholar named Alginushi,

and he renders it as the distinction of discourse. And so I think it's a treatise that distinguishes

different kinds of discourse in various ways, a discourse that's appropriate for the masses,

a kind of rhetorical discourse, a discourse that is

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