- come to know / arrive at knowledge of something / learn
- know / be in a state of knowledge
Or are both senses equally basic?
MAubrey wrote:Looking through the lexicons, there's a consistency of listing a couple different (major) senses for γινώσκω.I'm curious as to whether anyone would view one of these senses as more basic than another. That is, does this verb first and foremost denote a change of state from ignorance to knowledge or does it fire and foremost denote simply being in a state of knowledge?
- come to know / arrive at knowledge of something / learn
- know / be in a state of knowledge
Or are both senses equally basic?
MAubrey wrote:Thanks, Carl.
That's the answer I was hoping for. It makes a lot more sense of how the perfect of this verb is used if the change-of-state sense is the original or more basic one.
πολλῶν δ’ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω
Book 1.3 πολλὰς δ’ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
4 ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν ...
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