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There are, says Aristotle, two errors which rest on a common basis. There is that of supposing that knowledge implies either an infinite regress from premise to premise in order that nothing may be accepted unproved, or else the acceptance of unproved and therefore unknown premises; and that knowledge is therefore impossible. And there is the error of supposing that knowledge is possible but proceeds in a circle, - truth being thus reduced to the mutual implication of propositions none of which are independently known to be true. The common basis of the two errors is the assumption that proof is the only way of knowledge, and against them both he affirms his principle that there are first premises which neither need nor admit of proof. - David Ross, Aristotle, 6th ed., p. 43-44 -
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:56:06 +0000

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