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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Day 46: Theaetetus 196a-200c (p. 217-221)
Today we have yet another famous attempt to describe false judgment without falling into the problem of claiming that someone does not know what they know: namely, Socrates's aviary. One wonders how much Aristotle had this image in mind when developing his distinction between first and second actuality. After all, Aristotle's own distinction is frequently made in terms of knowledge, and knowing in different senses ...
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It's a shock to read the aviary passage and see knowledge identified with _the birds_, rather than with (say) the ability to select the birds.
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