 With contrasts such as these in mind, it has seemed to several scholars of Ancient philosophy that episteme has more in common with what we would now call “understanding” than what we would now call “knowledge”. Thus Julia Annas notes that, for Plato, the person with episteme has a systematic understanding of things, and is not a mere possessor of various truths (Annas 1981: ch. 10). Jonathan Lear similarly claims that for Aristotle,