Single Idea 2069

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism]

Full Idea

If you can't apprehend being you can't apprehend truth, and so a thing could not be known. Therefore knowledge is not located in immediate experience but in thinking about it, since the latter makes it possible to grasp being and truth.

Gist of Idea

Thought must grasp being itself before truth becomes possible

Source

Plato (Theaetetus [c.364 BCE], 186c)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.90