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Full Idea

Knowledge itself, say the stoics, is either a secure grasp or a disposition in the reception of presentations not reversible by argument.

Gist of Idea

Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.47

Book Ref

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.12

A Reaction

Helpful, but not enough. Fools hold secure grasps which cannot be refuted, as far as they are concerned. Consensus needed. Falsification? The truth-bearer is a 'presentation' (an appearance), which is different from modern accounts.

The 38 ideas with the same theme [situation of holding a set of reliable true beliefs]:

6328 To know yet to think that one does not know is best [Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
6323 Pursuit of learning increases activity; the Way decreases it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
16120 Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato]
2133 Knowledge must be of the permanent unchanging nature of things [Plato]
2080 Things are only knowable if a rational account (logos) is possible [Plato]
547 The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge [Aristotle]
12072 For Aristotle knowledge is explanatory, involving understanding, and principles or causes [Aristotle, by Witt]
12073 'Episteme' means grasping causes, universal judgments, explanation, and teaching [Aristotle, by Witt]
12378 The reason why is the key to knowledge [Aristotle]
5991 For Aristotle, knowledge is of causes, and is theoretical, practical or productive [Aristotle, by Code]
7289 Do not try to do things, or to master knowledge; just be empty [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
21397 Perception an open hand, a fist is 'grasping', and holding that fist is knowledge [Zeno of Citium, by Long]
20783 Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
9089 Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul [William of Ockham]
9091 Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration [William of Ockham]
5640 Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton]
12544 Our knowledge falls short of the extent of our own ideas [Locke]
19424 Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz]
19397 Perfect knowledge implies complete explanations and perfect prediction [Leibniz]
19757 No one would bother to reason, and try to know things, without a desire for enjoyment [Rousseau]
20944 Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts [Kant, by Bowie]
5617 Knowledge begins with intuitions, moves to concepts, and ends with ideas [Kant]
21957 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant]
20126 The strength of knowledge is not its truth, but its entrenchment in our culture [Nietzsche]
4537 We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is [Nietzsche]
22869 Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless [Dewey]
16482 All our knowledge (if verbal) is general, because all sentences contain general words [Russell]
6430 In epistemology we should emphasis the continuity between animal and human minds [Russell]
5431 Knowledge cannot be precisely defined, as it merges into 'probable opinion' [Russell]
15037 Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault]
8878 It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching [Sosa]
8888 The concept of knowledge is so confused that it is best avoided [Bonjour]
3897 Epistemology is about the justification of belief, not the definition of knowledge [Scruton]
6346 The main epistemological theories are foundationalist, coherence, probabilistic and reliabilist [Pollock/Cruz]
3756 Perception, introspection, testimony, memory, reason, and inference can give us knowledge [Bernecker/Dretske]
21627 We have inexact knowledge when we include margins of error [Williamson]
19566 Epistemology does not just concern knowledge; all aspects of cognitive activity are involved [Kvanvig]
19712 Maybe there is plain 'animal' knowledge, and clearly justified 'reflective' knowledge [Vahid]
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