Full Idea
For Aristotle, knowledge is explanatory, for to know something is to understand it, and to understand something is to grasp its principles or causes.
Gist of Idea
For Aristotle knowledge is explanatory, involving understanding, and principles or causes
Source
report of Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE]) by Charlotte Witt - Substance and Essence in Aristotle 1.2
Book Reference
Witt,Charlotte: 'Substance and Essence in Aristotle' [Cornell 1994], p.15
A Reaction
Thus the kind of 'knowledge' displayed in quiz shows would not count as knowledge at all, if it was mere recall of facts. To know is to be able to explain, which is to be able to teach. See Idea 11241.
Related Idea
Idea 11241 Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct [Aristotle]