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Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.38.1–I.50.38.2
Ancient Greek
p. 161238.1
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
Μὴ τοίνυν ἀπολίπωμεν ὅσον ἐλλεῖπον αὐτοῦ. Λείπεται δὲ ἐνυπνίων τε πέρι καὶ νόσων τε τῶν ἄλλων καὶ μανίας, ὅσα τε παρακούειν ἢ παρορᾶν ἤ τι ἄλλο παραισθάνεσθαι λέγεται. Οἶσθα γάρ που ὅτι ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις ὁμολογουμένως ἐλέγχεσθαι δοκεῖ ὃν ἄρτι διῄειμεν λόγον, ὥστε παντὸς μᾶλλον ἂν ἡμῖν ψευδεῖς αἰσθήσεις ἐν αὐτοῖς γιγνομένας, καὶ πολλοῦ δεῖ τὰ φαινόμενα ἑκάστῳ ταῦτα καὶ εἶναι, ἀλλὰ πᾶν τοὐναντίον οὐδὲν ὧν φαίνεται εἶναι.
38.2
Ἀληθέστατα λέγεις, ὦ Σώκρατες.
Τίς δὴ οὖν, ὦ παῖ, λείπεται λόγος τῷ τὴν αἴσθησιν ἐπιστήμην τιθεμένῳ καὶ τὰ φαινόμενα ἑκάστῳ ταῦτα εἶναι τούτῳ ᾧ φαίνεται;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 50
p. 161338.1 · Dreams and mistaken perceptions
In the same work.
“Let us not leave out what remains of the account. There remain dreams, other illnesses, madness, and everything called mishearing, misseeing, or some other mistaken perception. You surely know that all these are generally thought to refute the argument we have just been going through: in such cases our perceptions would above all be false, and it is far from true that the things appearing to each person actually are so. Quite the reverse: none of what appears is so.”1957
38.2 · The challenge to perception as knowledge
“What you say is entirely true, Socrates.”
“What argument, then, my boy, remains for someone who maintains that perception is knowledge, and that what appears to each person is so for the person to whom it appears?”1958
Socrates
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