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547 | The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: The ability to teach is a distinguishing mark between the knowledgeable and the ignorant man. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981b04) |
18810 | Aristotle's proofs give understanding, so it can't be otherwise, so consequence is necessary [Smiley, by Rumfitt] |
Full Idea: The ingredient of necessity [in Aristotle's account of consequence] is required by his demand that proof should produce 'understanding' [episteme], coupled with his claim that understanding something involves seeing that it cannot be otherwise. | |
From: report of Timothy Smiley (Conceptions of Consequence [1998], p.599) by Ian Rumfitt - The Boundary Stones of Thought 3.2 | |
A reaction: An intriguing reverse of the normal order. Not 'necessity in logic delivers understanding', but 'reaching understanding shows the logic was necessary'. |
10950 | Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1032a33) | |
A reaction: This resembles the legal notion of 'mens rea', the conscious intention to commit the deed. |
546 | It takes skill to know causes, not experience [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: The skilled know the cause, whereas the experienced do not. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a29) |
544 | Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Experience is the knowledge of particulars and skill that of universals. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a14) |