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    Knowledge of an object is only achieved when that object is related to still other objects.

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    • 1.Knowledge consists in the relation of one thing to some other thing
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    • 2.Objects stand in myriad spatio-temporal relations to other objects
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    • 1.Direct acquaintance with particulars (e.g., qualia, sense-data) yields knowledge prior to and independent of any relational context.
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    • 2.Russell's distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description shows that some knowledge is non-relational and immediate.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenological analysis demonstrates that intentional consciousness can grasp an object's essential structure through eidetic intuition without recourse to external relata.
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    • 2.If relational knowledge presupposes grasping the relata themselves, then at least some foundational knowledge of objects must be non-relational to avoid an infinite regress.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Direct acquaintance with particulars (e.g., qualia, sense-data) yields knowledge...Husserl's phenomenological analysis demonstrates that intentional consciousness ...If relational knowledge presupposes grasping the relata themselves, then at leas...Knowledge consists in the relation of one thing to some other thing
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    Reinhold's Principle of Consciousness presupposes a subject and object...78%For a term to represent or refer to an object, there must be a causal ...78%Knowledge can only be realized if it establishes a relation between re...77%A subject must be capable of relating to an object.77%

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    Earlier Schlick had argued that knowledge consists in the identification of that which is known with that as which it is known or, in other words, knowledge consists in the relation of one thing to some other thing, as which it is known. And this is only achieved when one of the objects which is known is, in turn, related to still others, as it is in the myriad spatio-temporal relations in which it stands to other objects. Ultimately, all these relations can be known quantitatively by specifying
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