وأخذ عنهم القاضي أبو بكر الباقلانيّ فتصدّر للإمامة في طريقتهم وهذّبها ووضع المقدّمات العقليّة الّتي تتوقّف عليها الأدلّة والأنظار وذلك مثل إثبات الجوهر الفرد والخلاء
Judge Abu Bakr alBaqillani learned from them. He attacked the problem of the imamate in accordance with the way they had approached it, and improved on it. He laid down the logical premises on which arguments and speculation on the subject depend. He affirmed, for instance, the existence of the atom (al jawhar al fard) and of the vacuum