{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>As, then, Knowledge (ἐπιστημη) is an intellectual state, from which\r\nresults the act of knowing, and becomes apprehension irrefragable\r\nby reason; so also ignorance is a receding impression, which can be\r\ndislodged by reason. And that which is overthrown as well as that\r\nwhich is elaborated by reason, is in our power. Akin to Knowledge\r\nis <i>experience</i>, cognition (εἴδησις), Comprehension (σύνεσις),\r\nperception, and Science. Cognition (εἴδησις) is the knowledge of\r\nuniversals by species; and Experience is comprehensive knowledge, which\r\ninvestigates the nature of each thing. Perception (νόησις) is the\r\nknowledge of intellectual objects; and Comprehension (σύνεσις) is the\r\nknowledge of what is compared, or a comparison that cannot be annulled,\r\nor the faculty of comparing the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_46\">[46]</span> objects with which Judgment and\r\nKnowledge are occupied, both of one and each and all that goes to make\r\nup one reason. And Science (γνῶσις) is the knowledge of the thing in\r\nitself, or the knowledge which harmonizes with what takes place. Truth\r\nis the knowledge of the true; and the mental habit of truth is the\r\nknowledge of the things which are true. Now knowledge is constituted by\r\nthe reason, and cannot be overthrown by another reason.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_169\" id=\"FNanchor_169\">[169]</a> What we\r\ndo not, we do not either from not being able, or not being willing—or\r\nboth. Accordingly we don’t fly, since we neither can nor wish; we do\r\nnot swim at present, for example, since we can indeed, but do not\r\nchoose; and we are not as the Lord, since we wish, but cannot be: “for\r\nno disciple is above his master, and it is sufficient if we be as the\r\nmaster:”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_170\" id=\"FNanchor_170\">[170]</a> not in essence (for it is impossible for that, which is\r\nby adoption, to be equal in substance to that, which is by nature); but\r\n[we are as Him] only in our<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_171\" id=\"FNanchor_171\">[171]</a> having been made immortal, and our\r\nbeing conversant with the contemplation of realities, and beholding the\r\nFather through what belongs to Him.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XVII. ON THE VARIOUS KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_171","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-77"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6ccb8a9e82d398c741f60564fe6f39770d297a3679ba4ae0e56d3dd53ed0ad56","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_171","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_171","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_171\" id=\"Footnote_171\">[171]</a> Adopting Sylburgius’ conjecture of τῳ δε for τὸ δε.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_171","text_sha256":"5cbe4c577e6351e1ab13f756faa064a89848d370640478465b3c2f4ecfa570ff","verified":false,"work_id":null}