By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but … - Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

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