PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Posterior Analytics
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Learning from preexisting knowledge: aristotle claims there are different forms of knowledge. Before we perform the induction of the deduction, we should presumably be said to know in one way but not in another. But clearly we know it insofar as we know it universally, but we do not know it without qualification. Otherwise we will fact he puzzle in the meno, since we will turn out to learn either nothing or nothing else but what we know. But, i think, it is quite possible for us to know in one way what we are learning, while being ignorant of it in another way. Knowledge of causes: to have knowledge is to have a grasp of the causes for why things are the way they are. We shall say later whether there is also some other way of knowing; but we certainly say that we know through demonstration.
