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'Metaphysics', 'Concerning the Author' and 'Intuitionism and Formalism'
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
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The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge [Aristotle]
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Full Idea:
The ability to teach is a distinguishing mark between the knowledgeable and the ignorant man.
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From:
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981b04)
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How
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Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind [Aristotle]
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Full Idea:
Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind.
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From:
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1032a33)
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A reaction:
This resembles the legal notion of 'mens rea', the conscious intention to commit the deed.
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It takes skill to know causes, not experience [Aristotle]
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Full Idea:
The skilled know the cause, whereas the experienced do not.
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From:
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a29)
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Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals [Aristotle]
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Full Idea:
Experience is the knowledge of particulars and skill that of universals.
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From:
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a14)
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism
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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]
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Full Idea:
Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.
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From:
Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)
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