ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses from the metaphysical viewpoint the mental notions of knowledge, cognition, and apprehension, including the general conception of the mental existent. It provides Abu'l-Barakat's conception of knowledge, as this is initially defined in the Metaphysics with its three components: a knower, a relating attribute, and a known. Abu'l-Barakat conceives the ontological existent as an ipseity with a function of feeling, thus he considers the ontological ipseity as having a primitive psychological state, even for the inanimate. Abu'l-Barakat transforms the notion of Aristotelian categorial being to the notion of existence that exists in two forms: existential and mental. Abu'l-Barakat conceives the ontological existent as an ipseity with a function of feeling, thus he considers the ontological ipseity as having a primitive psychological state, even for the inanimate. Abu'l-Barakat has established that the soul functions as an ipseity to an ipseity. Abu'l-Barakat asserts that God has knowledge, which is conceived to be as the nature of the mental forms.
