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The concept of mental existence taken in the context of epistemology have played a decisive role in the emergence of theories about epistemology and differences between these theories. Three different views have emerged about the concept of mental existence as a result of debates between philosophers and theologians on the nature of knowledge. One of these views is “the theory of guiddity” that belongs to philosophers who defend the idea of “representation that formes in mind is the existence of guiddity itself”. The second view is “the theory of relation” that belongs to theologians who accept knowledge as a relation and deny mental existence by saying that imagination in the mind is not knowledge. The third one is “the theory of mental similitude” that defends the idea of “imaginations in the mind are not guiddity themselves but they are the existence of shadow (silhouette/image/sebeh) of them”. In this study, these three theories will be examined from different aspects.   

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