ith all these and with rational activity. Men desire to know, according to Aristotle, not in the sense for men to do something or make something. In addition to these pragmatic motives, there is in man a desire to know certain kinds of things simply for the sake of knowing. An indication of this, according to Aristotle, is "the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves" inasmuch as our seeing "makes us know and brings to light many differences between things."
Aristotle enumerated in his Metaphysics the different levels of knowledge. He stated that some men gain knowledge only through what they experience with through their senses. But we do not refer to what man knows only through his senses a
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