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Full Idea
Knowledge is a certain quality which exists in the soul as its subject ('existens subiective in anima').
Gist of Idea
Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
Source
William of Ockham (Expositio super viii libros [1340], Prologue)
Book Ref
Ockham,William of: 'Ockham's Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Boehner,P [Hackett 1990], p.3
A Reaction
One might say here that knowledge is a property, and so it might not be susceptible to further analysis. It invites the question of how you could know by introspection that you have got it, which would be an extreme internalist view.
| 9090 | Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true [William of Ockham] |
| 9089 | Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul [William of Ockham] |
| 9091 | Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration [William of Ockham] |