Excerpt from System of Logic and History of Logical Doctrines
Knowledge, in the wider sense in which we here use the word, comprehends both cognition, which rests on perception (and on the evidence transmitting perceptions of which we are ignorant), and also knowledge in the stricter sense, which is attained by thinking.
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