The expression “capacity for knowledge” means an ability to acquire knowledge, not possession of all knowledge.
Mistake: interpreting it as “every human already knows everything.”
Correct: in the text’s classical explanation, the aptitude for knowing is treated as a necessary implication of the human concept.
Distinguishing a capacity from an acquired achievement makes the source’s example coherent.
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Capacity to know is not already knowing
The Three Kinds of Conventional Verbal Indication
The expression “capacity for knowledge” means an ability to acquire knowledge, not possession of all knowledge.
Mistake: interpreting it as “every human already knows everything.”
Correct: in the text’s classical explanation, the aptitude for knowing is treated as a necessary implication of the human concept.
Distinguishing a capacity from an acquired achievement makes the source’s example coherent.