Εἴδησις
knowledge
Translated by Marcelo Boeri17 May 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] acquaintance/knowing.1
Knowledge [is] threefold.2 For [I] science is called 'knowledge', as Plato says in the Phaedo: for to know is this, 'having acquired knowledge of something, to keep it and not to have lost it'.3 Alternatively [II] [knowledge is] fuller acquaintance, whether without qualification or a more general [acquaintance] encompassing both of them, as Aristotle says in the Physics; since to know and to have a scientific understanding [are related] to all the sciences.4 For by 'knowing' he means a full acquaintance, and by 'having a scientific knowledge' an accurate acquaintance [of something]. Alternatively [III] [the knowledge] which is said to be in common or in general in any acquaintance; the knowledge that [Aristotle] took in the Metaphysics.
Knowledge [is] threefold.2 For [I] science is called 'knowledge', as Plato says in the Phaedo: for to know is this, 'having acquired knowledge of something, to keep it and not to have lost it'.3 Alternatively [II] [knowledge is] fuller acquaintance, whether without qualification or a more general [acquaintance] encompassing both of them, as Aristotle says in the Physics; since to know and to have a scientific understanding [are related] to all the sciences.4 For by 'knowing' he means a full acquaintance, and by 'having a scientific knowledge' an accurate acquaintance [of something]. Alternatively [III] [the knowledge] which is said to be in common or in general in any acquaintance; the knowledge that [Aristotle] took in the Metaphysics.