خلاصه ماشینی:
"At the end, the author considers the ''''intuitive knowledge'''' of self to itself as a reason and cause of the aquiring of ''''empirical knowledge'''' of objects, and, by propounding a comparative discussion between the views of Mulla Sadra with those of Descartes, he demonstrates the right comments of the great Muslim Philosopher.
This was done in order to prepare an expository history and comparative study on the subject-matter of epistemology for the clecrical students of the seminary schools of Qum. Some of the topics are: ''''the history, significance and the rising point of epistemology'''', ''''the distictions between epistemology and psychology of Perception as well as of the ontology of Knowledge, the general and particular concepts of epistemology'''', ''''the importance of epistemolgy in Islamic philosophy'''', ''''the congruity of epistemology with political intentions'''', ''''the necessity of considering the mental inclinations of the writers of the history of epistemology'''', ''''the usages of the word "episteme" and its difference with the word "knowldge" '''', ''''the twelve applications of knowledge in the religious and philosophical sources of Islam'''', ''''an exposition of the contents of the basic and axial arguments in Western epistemology, explaining the nature of knowledge, the characteristics of the knower, determining the nature of the known, the possibility of knowledge, the span of knowledge, and the divisions of knowledge''''."