 Philosophy identifies (V.4) the character Boethius’s central difficulty as lying in the apparent incompatibility between an event’s not having a necessary outcome and yet its being foreknown. To foresee something ‘as if it were certain’ when it is uncertain how it will turn out is ‘foreign to the integrity of knowledge’, since it involves ‘judging a thing as being other than it is.’ Philosophy counters these doubts with the principle that ‘everything that is known is grasped, not according to its own power, but rather according to the capacity of those who know it.’ Her view, as she develops it (in V.5 and V.6), is based on what might be called the Principle of Modes of Cognition: the idea that knowledge is always relativized to different levels of knowers, who have different sorts of objects of knowledge. This relativization is, however, limited. The same item is not true for one knower and false for another, but the way in which a given item is known differs according to the powers of the knower. Philosophy develops this scheme in relation to the different levels of the soul (intelligence, reason, imagination and the senses) and their different objects (pure Form, abstract universals, images, particular bodily things).