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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Chapter XVII.—On the Various Kinds of Knowledge.

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As, then, Knowledge (ἐπιστήμη) is an intellectual state, from which results the act of knowing, and becomes apprehension irrefragable by reason; so also ignorance is a receding impression, which can be dislodged by reason. And that which is overthrown as well as that which is elaborated by reason, is in our power. Akin to Knowledge is experience, cognition (εἴδησις), Comprehension (σύνεσις), perception, and Science.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Chapter XVII.—On the Various Kinds of Knowledge.

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