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Scientific Knowledge, therefore, is the quality whereby we demonstrate,Demonstration in Aristotle means proof by deduction. with the further qualifications included in our definition of it in the Analytics,See Aristot. Post. Anal. 1, 71b 9 ff. namely, that a man knows a thing scientifically when he possesses a conviction arrived at in a certain way, and when the first principles on which that conviction rests are known to him with certainty—for unless he is more certain of his first principles than of the conclusion drawn from them he will only possess the knowledge in question accidentally.i.e., the conviction may happen to be true, but he will not hold it as Scientific Knowledge in the proper sense of the term. Let this stand as our definition of Scientific Knowledge.
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The class of things that admit of variation includes both things made and actions done.
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But making is different from doing (a distinction we may accept from extraneous discoursesSee note on 1.13.9.). Hence the rational quality concerned with doing is different from the rational quality concerned with making; nor is one of them a part of the other, for doing is not a form of making, nor making a form of doing.
