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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Ethics' and 'Posterior Analytics'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
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]
5640 Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
12364 We understand a thing when we know its explanation and its necessity [Aristotle]
17211 Understanding is the sole aim of reason, and the only profit for the mind [Spinoza]
12370 Some understanding, of immediate items, is indemonstrable [Aristotle]
12366 We only understand something when we know its explanation [Aristotle]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs
1685 No one has mere belief about something if they think it HAS to be true [Aristotle]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / e. Belief holism
21801 Unlike Descartes' atomism, Spinoza held a holistic view of belief [Spinoza, by Schmid]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
1673 Knowledge proceeds from principles, so it is hard to know if we know [Aristotle]
17193 True ideas intrinsically involve the highest degree of certainty [Spinoza]
21863 You only know you are certain of something when you actually are certain of it [Spinoza]
17199 A man who assents without doubt to a falsehood is not certain, but lacks a cause to make him waver [Spinoza]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
5638 'I think' is useless, because it is contingent, and limited to the first person [Spinoza, by Scruton]