"Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do. God knows particulars as their Creator whereas humans know them as a privileged creations of God might know them."
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Attributed to Averroes in Voices of Islam: Voices of change (2007) by Vincent J. Cornell, p. 35.
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