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Rather the following is the account of it: the term knowing has

two senses; both the man who does not use his Knowledge, and he

who does, are said to know: there will be a difference between a

man's acting wrongly, who though possessed of Knowledge does not

call it into operation, and his doing so who has it and actually

exercises it: the latter is a strange case, but the mere having,

if not exercising, presents no anomaly.

Again, as there are two kinds of propositions affecting

action,[4] universal and particular, there is no reason why a man

may not act against his Knowledge, having both propositions in

his mind, using the universal but not the particular, for the

particulars are the objects of moral action.