Abstract

In Islamic sources, we can find the ideas of a number of philosophers who have dealt with the issue of sense perception following different approaches. All these viewpoints are interdependent, and since each of them is related to a specific dimension or aspect of the issue, the combination of all of them represents the numerous and various angles of the epistemological geometry of senses.The writer of this article briefly recounts the scattered ideas and problems in relation to sense perception as follows:1. The issue of egology, which is one of the most important topics in philosophy, deals with the disussion of perceptions;2. The issue of immediate perceptions which are of two types, namely, primary and secondary immediate perceptions, are classifed into five groups one of which is sense perceptions;3. The value of knowledge in general and the value of sense perceptions in particular;4. The means of knowledge, one of them by which man is equipped is the faculty of sense;5. The stages of knowledge, the first of which is sensation;6. The sources of knowledge, one of the most important of which is sense perception;7. Proving the existence of the external world which is one of the most important dilemmas of epistemology and is strongly united with the issue of sense perception.