Abstract
For Avicenna, God’s attributes expressed by sacred texts, are the attributes of the Necessary Existent. Though the majority of Avicenna’s writings demonstrate a Positive Theology, there are surprisingly some phrases in his works that show his tending to a Negative Theology. These phrases express the conceptual sameness of Necessary Existent’s attributes. It means that there is no different, even conceptually, between Necessary Existent’s Power, Knowledge, and Life. Avicenna concluded his Negative Theology from three issues: meaning of the term ‘attribute,’ consideration for the meaning of ‘Necessary Existent’ as a particular, and, for extreme Negative Theology, ‘absolute simplicity’ of the Necessary Existent. By analyzing Avicenna’s writings about these three issues, this paper attempts to explain the reasons for the Avicenna's opinion, with a linguistic analysis approach.
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