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[4]
so that if weakness of conviction
be the criterion for deciding that men who act against their conception of what is right
must be said to opine rather than to know the right, there will really be no difference in
this respect between Opinion and Knowledge; since some men are just as firmly convinced of
what they opine as others are of what they know: witness Heracleitus.1
1 This seems to refer to the dogmatic tone of Heracleitus's teaching in general.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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