تاملی در عدم صحت اطلاق وصف «وجود» بر خدا از دیدگاه میرزای مهدی اصفهانی

حقیقت خدا «هستی» و «وجود محض» است که اطلاق وصف فوق بر خدا مورد اتفاق اندیشوران مسلمان است؛ لکن موسس مکتب تفکیک «میرزای مهدی اصفهانی» با تمسک به مبانی خاص «وضع الفاظ بر حقایق خارجی؛ اشتراک لفظی صفات خدا و ممکن» کوشیده است منکر صحت اطلاق مزبور شود و برای توجیه آن ادله‎ای هم (ابهام وجود، فقدان مفهوم برای وجود، اشاره صفات خدا به ذات، انتزاع وجود از ممکن و فقر ذاتی آن) اقامه کرده است. نگارنده با فحص در آثار ایشان به یافتن ادله و طبقه‎بندی آن پرداخته و در تحلیل آن، ضعف علمی مبانی و ادله وی را نشان داده است که مهم‏ترین آن، انکار وضع لفظ بر معنای ذهنی و خلط مفهوم و مصداق است.

A Reflection on the Inaccuracy of Attributing “Existence” to God from the Perspective of Mirza Mahdi Esfahani

“Existence” and “being” is the reality of God or one of His essential and attributes which its attribution to God is unanimously accepted among Muslim scholars. Yet “Mirza Mahdi Esfahani”, the founder of the school of tafkik (distinction), has rejected this attribution appealing to the special basis of “ordaining words for external realities; the equivocality of God’s attributes and the possible beings”. He has presented some reasons (ambiguity of existence, lack of having a conception for existence, God’s attributes indicates His essence, extracting existence from possible being and its essential poverty) to justify this idea. I have studied his writings to find the reasons and classify them. Analyzing these reasons, I have shown the weakness of his scientific bases and arguments. The most important problem found is that he denies that words are ordained for conceptual meanings and confuses concept and its referent; in other words, it is not possible for a word to imply an external referent without having a concept and a conceptual meaning. In addition, Isfahani’s “existence” has no concept or it is ambiguous, and he has confused the concept of God with its referent.