Abstract:
Aiming to establish second-order philosophies within the humanities sciences, and providing them with direction, this paper, by an analytic-critical approach, examins the role of presential knowledge (al-ʿilm al-ḥuḍūrī) in the humanities. In this context, by tracing self-evident substructures and concepts back to presential knowledge, the paper concludes that, beyond the epistemological and methodological achievements of the theory of referring self-evident concepts to presential knowledge, it is possible to refer diverse concepts of the humanities to presential knowledge and to furnish a rigorous explanation for realism within the domain of the humanities.