Aristotle's Metaphysics
Hey, that's all good, but my question was about
the kinds of thinking in
Aristotle and whether Aristotle's philosophy allows for
incomplete knowledge or if it's already always complete. I don't feel that there was an answer to these questions in your post. This is because...
a. The fact that Aristotle might also believed in gradations of knowledge does not mean that he believed in the exact same theory that Plato's analogy points to. Also, that particular question was about the kinds of thinking, not knowledge. There might be gradations of knowledge but Gerson distinguished between knowledge (as a kind of thinking) and other kinds of thinking. Which are these other kinds of thinking (which aren't necessarily kinds of knowledge)?
b. Again, the question was about Aristotle, not Plato, the Ancients in general or Aquinas. All these might share some doctrines but their theories are not necessarily the same top to bottom; unless this is what you're arguing for of course (but if this is so, let's first focus on what Aristotle says). Furthermore, the question wasn't really related to perception or to a possible apodictic nature of rational truths. It was about the possibility of incompleteness of our knowledge, whatever knowledge is. For example, is a geometer's knowledge of his science already complete from the get go or is this completeness achieved with time? The accuracy of the knowledge he has gained at anyone point is not the issue here, I'm just asking if he knows from the start all that there is to know. Also, taking a non-science example, do we, as regular people, know all there is to know from the start according to your understanding of Aristotle?