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If then the qualities whereby we attain truth,1 and are never led into falsehood, whether
about things invariable or things variable, are scientific Knowledge, Prudence, Wisdom,
and Intelligence, and if the quality which enables us to apprehend first principles cannot
be any one among three of these, namely Scientific Knowledge, Prudence, and Wisdom, it
remains that first principles must be apprehended by Intelligence.2
1 Cf. 3.1. Art is here omitted from the list.
2 νοῦς now receives its special sense （see 2.1, note） of a particular virtue of the intellect, viz. that faculty of rational intuition whereby it correctly apprehends （by process of induction, see 3.3） undemonstrable first principles. It is thus a part of σοφία （7.3,5）.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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