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Single Idea 547
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
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Full Idea
The ability to teach is a distinguishing mark between the knowledgeable and the ignorant man.
Gist of Idea
The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981b04)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.5
The
39 ideas
with the same theme
[situation of holding a set of reliable true beliefs]:
6328
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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6323
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Pursuit of learning increases activity; the Way decreases it
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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16120
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Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality
[Plato]
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2133
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Knowledge must be of the permanent unchanging nature of things
[Plato]
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2080
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Things are only knowable if a rational account (logos) is possible
[Plato]
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24252
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Knowledge is taught, has logos, is unshakeable, and is rare
[Plato]
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547
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The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge
[Aristotle]
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12072
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For Aristotle knowledge is explanatory, involving understanding, and principles or causes
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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12073
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'Episteme' means grasping causes, universal judgments, explanation, and teaching
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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12378
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The reason why is the key to knowledge
[Aristotle]
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5991
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For Aristotle, knowledge is of causes, and is theoretical, practical or productive
[Aristotle, by Code]
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7289
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Do not try to do things, or to master knowledge; just be empty
[Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
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21397
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Perception an open hand, a fist is 'grasping', and holding that fist is knowledge
[Zeno of Citium, by Long]
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20783
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Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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9089
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Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
[William of Ockham]
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9091
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Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration
[William of Ockham]
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5640
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Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions
[Spinoza, by Scruton]
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12544
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Our knowledge falls short of the extent of our own ideas
[Locke]
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19424
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Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive
[Leibniz]
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19397
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Perfect knowledge implies complete explanations and perfect prediction
[Leibniz]
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19757
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No one would bother to reason, and try to know things, without a desire for enjoyment
[Rousseau]
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20944
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Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts
[Kant, by Bowie]
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5617
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Knowledge begins with intuitions, moves to concepts, and ends with ideas
[Kant]
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21957
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'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know
[Kant]
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20126
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The strength of knowledge is not its truth, but its entrenchment in our culture
[Nietzsche]
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4537
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We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is
[Nietzsche]
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22869
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Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless
[Dewey]
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16482
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All our knowledge (if verbal) is general, because all sentences contain general words
[Russell]
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6430
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In epistemology we should emphasis the continuity between animal and human minds
[Russell]
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5431
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Knowledge cannot be precisely defined, as it merges into 'probable opinion'
[Russell]
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15037
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Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development?
[Foucault]
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8878
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It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching
[Sosa]
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8888
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The concept of knowledge is so confused that it is best avoided
[Bonjour]
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3897
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Epistemology is about the justification of belief, not the definition of knowledge
[Scruton]
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6346
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The main epistemological theories are foundationalist, coherence, probabilistic and reliabilist
[Pollock/Cruz]
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3756
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Perception, introspection, testimony, memory, reason, and inference can give us knowledge
[Bernecker/Dretske]
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21627
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We have inexact knowledge when we include margins of error
[Williamson]
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19566
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Epistemology does not just concern knowledge; all aspects of cognitive activity are involved
[Kvanvig]
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19712
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Maybe there is plain 'animal' knowledge, and clearly justified 'reflective' knowledge
[Vahid]
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