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Full Idea
What gives reality and stability to our knowledge is the reality and stability of the relations established between its parts..…by the differences and identities with other things which have similarly achieved comparative fixity and substantiality.
Gist of Idea
Knowledge is secured by the relations between its parts, through differences and identities
Source
report of T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I
Book Ref
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.11
A Reaction
Although I don't sympathise with Green's idealist metaphysics, and nevertheless think that this internalist account of knowledge is correct.