Single Idea 23888

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First]

Full Idea

The speaker refuses to pose the question of knowledge, since knowledge is a given that is mixed with thought, and that no thinking being can get away from.

Gist of Idea

Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking

Source

Simone Weil (Philosophy [1941], p.42)

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'Late Philosophical Writings' [Notre Dame 2015], p.42


A Reaction

On the whole I favour belief-first, but I take the primary purpose of minds to be navigation, and that needs facts, not hopeful beliefs. Weil's thought pushes me a bit towards the knowledge first view.