All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
- Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (71a 1), tr. by Jonathan Barnes (1984/95)
Other translations of this quote:
All doctrine, and all intellectual discipline, arise from pre-existent knowledge, O.F. Owen (1853)
All communications of knowledge from teacher to pupil by way of reasoning pre-suppose some pre-existing knowledge., E.S. Bouchier (1901)
All instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge, G.R.G. Mure (1928)
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