Among the important issues that can be represented in Sadra's epistemology; is that whether the affirmative knowledge is realized in only one stage for the soul or in several stages and levels? From the heart of this question and its relation to the role of sense and experience in Sadra's epistemological system, we reach another issue which is what is the role of sense and experience in the stages of propositional knowledge from Mulla Sadra’s perspective? In the present study, based on the descriptive-analytical method, the authors seek to explain and analyze the role of sense and experience in the stages of propositional knowledge in Mulla Sadra’s point of view. Accordingly, the stages of affirmative cognitions are: affirmations and basic rational propositions, affirmations and particular sensory and imaginary propositions, and inferred rational affirmations and propositions which from Sadra's point of view, have a direct role in the process of particular sensory propositions.
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