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Book I Chapter 51 · I.51.6–I.51.7
Ancient Greek
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Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Φαίδωνος.
Ὁ δὲ ἐγκέφαλός ἐστιν ὁ τὰς αἰσθήσεις παρέχων τοῦ ἀκούειν καὶ ὁρᾶν καὶ ὀσφραίνεσθαι, ἐκ τούτων δὲ γίγνοιτο μνήμη καὶ δόξα, ἐκ δὲ μνήμης καὶ δόξης λαβούσης τὸ ἠρεμεῖν, κατὰ ταῦτα γίγνεσθαι ἐπιστήμην.
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Ἐμπεδοκλῆς.
Γαίᾳ μὲν γὰρ γαῖαν ὀπώπαμεν, ὕδατι δ᾽ ὕδωρ, αἰθέρι δ᾽ αἰθέρα δῖον, ἀτὰρ πυρὶ πῦρ ἀίδηλον.Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 51
p. 16256 · From perception to knowledge
Plato, from the Phaedo.
“The brain is what provides the perceptions of hearing, seeing, and smelling; from these memory and belief would arise, and from memory and belief, once they have attained stability, knowledge would arise in accordance with these.”1972
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Empedocles.
For with earth we have seen earth, with water water, with aether divine aether, and with fire destructive fire.1973
Socrates
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