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Single Idea 2133

[from 'The Republic' by Plato, in 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge ]

Full Idea

Those who can see each thing in itself, in its permanent and unvarying nature, we'll say they have knowledge and are not merely entertaining beliefs.

Gist of Idea

Knowledge must be of the permanent unchanging nature of things

Source

Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 479e)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.202