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Well, we suppose that we know things (in the strict and proper

sense of the word) when we suppose ourselves to know the cause by

reason of which the thing is to be the cause of it; and that this

cannot be otherwise. It is plain that the idea intended to be

conveyed by the term knowing is something of this kind; because

they who do not really know suppose themselves thus related to

the matter in hand and they who do know really are so that of

whatsoever there is properly speaking Knowledge this cannot be

otherwise than it is Whether or no there is another way of

knowing we will say afterwards, but we do say that we know

through demonstration, by which I mean a syllogism apt to produce

Knowledge, i.e. in right of which through having it, we know.