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The Degrees of Knowledge is a 1932 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, in which the author adopts St. Thomas Aquinas’s view called critical realism and applies it to his own epistemological positions.
- Roger W. Holmes, Jacques Maritain, Bernard Wall, Margot R. Adamson
- 1932
23 feb 2024 · The degrees of knowledge. by. Jacques Maritain. Publication date. 1937-01-01. Publisher. G. Bles, The Centenary press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
5 dic 1997 · He argued that there were different ‘orders’ of knowledge and, within them, different ‘degrees’ determined by the nature of the object to be known and the ‘degree of abstraction’ involved.
In Book IV of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Locke defined knowledge as “the perception of the connexion of and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas.” Knowledge so defined admits of three degrees, according to Locke.
Locke describes intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive knowledge as “three degrees of knowledge” (4.2.14). Intuitive knowledge is the most certain. It includes only things that the mind immediately sees are true without relying on any other information (4.2.1).
2 apr 2014 · For Locke, knowledge varies in the degrees of immediacy with which relations of ideas are perceived to agree or disagree. Locke identifies three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, deductive, and LOCKE’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. sensitive.
Traditionally, even if not always explicitly, the notion of degrees of knowledge has been linked with the idea that it is possible to improve one's knowledge by following some rules, which could be given the general descrip-tion of "rules for advancing to higher degrees in knowledge ". The idea is
