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It comes then to this: since the faculties whereby we always

attain truth and are never deceived when dealing with matter

Necessary or even Contingent are Knowledge, Practical Wisdom,

Science, and Intuition, and the faculty which takes in First

Principles cannot be any of the three first; the last, namely

Intuition, must be it which performs this function.

Chapter VII.

Science is a term we use principally in two meanings: in the

first place, in the Arts we ascribe it to those who carry their

arts to the highest accuracy;[22] Phidias, for instance, we call

a Scientific or cunning sculptor; Polycleitus a Scientific or

cunning statuary; meaning, in this instance, nothing else by

Science than an excellence of art: in the other sense, we think

some to be Scientific in a general way, not in any particular

line or in any particular thing, just as Homer says of a man in

his Margites; "Him the Gods made neither a digger of the ground,

nor ploughman, nor in any other way Scientific."