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fully explain perception without soul. It means, therefore, that soul is definitely existent and its existence is proved negatively, It is true that everything cannot be perceived through eyes, for example, we can see our body with eyes but we cannot see our consciousness with them, but this does not mean that consciousness does not exist.12 9
we can conclude that these proofs for the existence of soul may be regarded as indirect proofs to omniscience since soul is the subtratum of omniscience. If soul does not extist, there is no locus for knowledge, since knowledge subsists in the soul itself and omniscience is knowledge par-excellence.
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Ibid., I. 15.
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