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    Knowledge of the true nature of material objects requires abstracting from all relations of time.

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    • 1.The true nature of material objects consists in material substance considered as it is in itself, independent of temporal or spatial ties.
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    • 2.What the senses offer is knowledge of matter as it exists at a certain time and place — in its various divisions, shapes, and sizes.
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    • 3.To reach knowledge of the true nature of material objects, one must consider their being in relation to their substance alone.
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    • 1.For Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, substance is only intelligible through its accidents, including temporal duration and change.
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    • 2.A material object stripped of all temporal relations is indistinguishable from a purely abstract mathematical entity, not a material thing.
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    • 3.Knowledge of material objects as material requires grasping their capacity for change, which is essentially temporal in character.
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Pure Reason that time is the form of inner intuition structuring all possible experience of objects.
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    • 2.If temporal abstraction removes the very conditions under which objects can be known, such abstraction yields no knowledge of objects at all.
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    PerceptionTruth & Knowledge

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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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    This does not mean that the senses cannot access the true nature of things as well. In fact, for Desgabets, since all knowledge comes from the senses, the function of knowing the essences of things is a necessary role served by the senses. Recall that the true nature of particular objects consists in the local dispositions of parts of matter which produce the course of the movements we experience. These movements are the first and sole contact we have with the material world, and so the senses p
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