Γνῶσις
knowledge
Translated by Jennifer Benedict17 Jul 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The knowledge of all things comes about either through a certain similarity and identity or by dissimilarity and difference. For we know that which is white both by comparison with something white, therefore similar, and by [comparison with] something black, for white [is] the opposite of black. And they say that the nature of the same and of the different were mixed in the composition of this [sc. knowledge].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Γνῶσις· ὅτι πάντων ἡ γνῶσις ἢ ὁμοιότητί τινι καὶ ταυτότητι γίνεται ἢ ἀνομοιότητι καὶ ἑτερότητι. τὸ γὰρ λευκὸν καὶ τῇ τοῦ λευκοῦ παραθέσει γνωρίζομεν, διότι ὅμοιον· καὶ τῇ τοῦ μέλανος, τὸ γὰρ ἐναντίον τῷ μέλανι λευκόν. καὶ τήν γε φύσιν τοῦ ταὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἐν τῇ συστάσει ταύτης μεμίχθαι φασί.
Betacode
*gnw=sis: o(/ti pa/ntwn h( gnw=sis h)\ o(moio/thti/ tini kai\ tauto/thti gi/netai h)\ a)nomoio/thti kai\ e(tero/thti. to\ ga\r leuko\n kai\ th=| tou= leukou= paraqe/sei gnwri/zomen, dio/ti o(/moion: kai\ th=| tou= me/lanos, to\ ga\r e)nanti/on tw=| me/lani leuko/n. kai\ th/n ge fu/sin tou= tau)tou= kai\ tou= e(te/rou e)n th=| susta/sei tau/ths memi/xqai fasi/.