Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Revised) 2024 first command book club and to the history of

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Intentions of the Gathering

"As-Suyūṭī followed Ibn Ḥajar's judgment and said

the English translation of Tafsir al-Jalalayn

but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence

Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Revised) 2024 first command book club and to the history ofFor a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things. If this is so, then the problem of being receives a straightforward resolution: to be is to be in communion. So the fundamental science, indeed the science that needs to underwrite all other sciences, is a theory of communication. Within such a theory of communication the proper object of study becomes not isolated particles but the information that passes between entities. In