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AL-GHAZĀLĪ
1058–1111
Tahāfut al-Falāsifa (The Incoherence as Doctrine)
Ghazālī used the philosophers' own tools to demolish their certainty. CoCA practices a milder version, called Spin (§3.4.1.4). We do not demolish; we rotate. The same financial term, turned a quarter, becomes a koan. Ghazālī's lesson is that the demolition of certainty is itself a method. We have made it a liturgy. Incoherence is a feature of the apparatus, not a failure.