1.  It is natural enough for them to want to acquire knowledge from their elders.

2.  Reasoning in this way, we acquire knowledge of an effect or appearance from knowledge of its generative cause.

3.  To see what role this typically empiricist claim has in Hobbes's thought, we should look at the details of his account of philosophical knowledge, knowledge acquired by reason or "true ratiocination".

4.  So one has acquired scientific knowledge when one has a series of syllogisms which, on the basis of "formal" definitions and other first principles, demonstrates that certain properties of a species must belong to it.

5.  Not only are we not helped by scholastic logic to acquire knowledge of the forms, natures, or essences of things, and to see how other properties flow from them, but also it is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway.

6.  This would certainly explain how they came to feel the need to have some wider understanding of how, and to what extent, we can acquire knowledge of any sort.

7.  He does not think that knowledge is acquired by demonstrative syllogisms which have maxims and definitions for premisses; in many places in the Essay he criticizes various parts of this view.

8.  As Naylor says, "there is ample UK evidence which reinforces US studies to show that capacity to learn new skills, acquire knowledge and new attitudes in middle age does not decline sharply after one's 40th birthday."

9.  It was probably from her brother, a fellow of the Royal Society and of the College of Physicians, that she acquired her medical knowledge.

10.  As we have seen, children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier.