What made Aristotle and Plato so knowledgable?

As my old buddy DH would say, "It's time to grow our beards."

It is actually more than a question that needs to be asked. It is a question that needs to be answered.

What makes you think they were knowledgeable?

You'll probably find the answer for Aristotle here on Google under:
Aristotle -biography ; the opening sentence says it all:

Aristotle, one of Plato's greatest students, was born in 384 BC. Aristotle's father was a physician to the king of Mecadonia,
and when Aristotle was seven years old, his father sent him to study at the Academy.

To be in the educated upper tier of society probably helped.

Can you explain knowledge without being knowledgable?

Thanks 33export. Good stuff.

That just means he was educated though. Right?

That is actually a really cool site.

For "knowledge" read "speculative chatter of Greek upper class males at symposia (drinking parties) trying to justify their idle and potentially futile existence".

Yes, my point exactly

Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for more than 100,000 years. Our ancestors were not less intelligent that we are, just more ignorant--which goes with the territory. As has been pointed out, people in certain classes of society, and the effect is particularly strong in a slave-based society, have the leisure for intellectual activities. I don't know that i'd think of these men as particularly knowledgable. In fact, they believed a good deal of truly silly bullshit. But they certainly applied high standards of "thought exercise" to their ruminations.

Dana Plato was knowledgeable?

who knew

Philippos, Try Googling toStanford-Binet to kind of get a handle on to how native intellect is measured.

Qhat, pray tell, would any of S-B IQ testing have to do with Aristotle and/or Plato and how they became smart?

lol About the same as the other comments equating intelligence with knowledge.
In a word, nothing.

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They knowledge a lot.

Is this another philosophy circle jerk?

Im gonna say yes. Aristotle coined the word "Atom" which meant "Indivisible", boy was he an ignorant douche bag for not checking out atomic structure with an SEM