So out of sense-perception comes to be what we call
memory, and out of frequently repeated memories of the same thing
develops experience; for a number of memories constitute a single
experience. From experience again-i.e. from the universal now
stabilized in its entirety within the soul, the one beside the many
which is a single identity within them all-originate the skill of
the craftsman and the knowledge of the man of science, skill in the
sphere of coming to be and science in the sphere of being.
We conclude that these states of knowledge are neither innate in a
determinate form, nor developed from other higher states of knowledge,
but from sense-perception. It is like a rout in battle stopped by
first one man making a stand and then another, until the original
formation has been restored. The soul is so constituted as to be
capable of this process.
Let us now restate the account given already, though with
insufficient clearness. When one of a number of logically
indiscriminable particulars has made a stand, the earliest universal
is present in the soul: for though the act of sense-perception is of
the particular, its content is universal-is man, for example, not
the man Callias.
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