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Now it is not Knowledge: for men do not investigate matters about which they know,
whereas
Deliberative Excellence is one form of deliberation, and deliberating implies
investigating and calculating. But deliberation is not the same as investigation: it is
the investigation of a particular subject.1
Nor yet is it skill in Conjecture: for this operates without conscious calculation, and
rapidly, whereas deliberating takes a long time, and there is a proverb that execution
should be swift but deliberation slow.
1 Viz., matters of conduct.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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