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Full Idea
Study of the reason why has the most importance for knowledge.
Gist of Idea
The reason why is the key to knowledge
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 79a24)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.22
A Reaction
I take the study of reasons for belief to be much more central to epistemology than finding ways to answer radical sceptics about the basic possibility of knowledge.