PHIL 200 Lecture 13: Plato's Theatetus phil 200 lecture 13
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197e when you are little the bird cage (knowledge in the brain) is empty and as you grow and acquire knowledge you fill the cage the initial hunting= learning. 2nd hunting= recalling what we have learned: first potentiality- undeveloped capacity, first actuality fully developed capacity possessing knowledge, second actuality use of operation of fully developed capacity having knowledge. The wax model did not have knowledge interacting this model does. Bird coop model humans are aware of birds (knowledge) 198b-d though someone knows they must go back to the thing they know. No, but you must use your counting skills to know. You don"t know but you possess the knowledge of all numbers so you know that number. You both know and don"t know at the same time. 199a you can"t not know what you know (possess) you either have it or you don"t you have fully developed knowledge of x and fully developed knowledge of y.
