 we said no matter how one knowledge is in every respect it is not conceivable that it is related to two known things. rather this requires a multiplicity according to what is the position of the philosophers and their terminology in estimating multiplicity until they went to extremes and said if the first had an essence described by existence then that would have multiplicity. so they did not understand a single thing that has a reality and then is described by existence. rather they claimed
قلنا مهما كان العلم واحدا من كل وجه لم يتصور تعلقه بمعلومين، بل يقتضي ذلك كثرة ما على ما هو وضع الفلاسفة واصطلاحهم في تقدير الكثرة، حتى بالغوا فقالوا لو كان للأول ماهية موصوفة بالوجود لكان لذلك كثرة. فلم يعقلوا شيئا واحدا له حقيقية ثم يوصف بالوجود، بل زعموا