every fault of
conduct traceable to a fault of knowledge.  Everyone knows the typical
objection to this claim, saying that one often knows better than to do
a certain thing while going ahead and doing it anyway, but the axiom is
meant to be taken as a new definition of knowledge, ruling overall that
if one really, really knows better, then one simply does not do it, by
virtue of the definition.  This sort of reasoning issues in the setting
of priorities, putting knowledge before virtue, theory before practi