 and the second also as for their saying whoever knows something knows that he knows that he knows that particular knowledge so that the known is multiple and the knowledge is one this is not so. rather he knows that he knows another knowledge and ends with a knowledge that he is unaware of and does not know. and we do not say it continues endlessly rather it ends with a knowledge related to his known and he is unaware of the existence of the knowledge not of the existence of the known like the one who knows blackness and in his state of knowledge his soul is absorbed in his known which is blackness and he is unaware of his knowledge of the blackness and is not paying attention to it. if he pays attention to it he will need another knowledge until his attention is cut off.
 والثاني أيضا وأما قولهم إن من علم شيئا علم كونه عالما بذلك العلم بعينه فيكون المعلوم متعددا والعلم واحدا، فليس كذلك بل يعلم كونه عالما بعلم آخر وينتهي إلى علم يغفل عنه ولا يعلمه. ولا نقول يتسلسل إلى غير نهاية، بل ينقطع على علم متعلق بمعلومه وهو غافل عن وجود العلم لا عن وجود المعلوم، كالذي يعلم السواد وهو في حال علمه مستغرق النفس بمعلومه الذي هو سواد وغافل عن علمه بالسواد وليس ملتفتا إليه، فإن التفت إليه افتقر إلى علم آخر إلى أن ينقطع التفاته.