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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.5.1–I.41.5.2
Ancient Greek
p. 8465.1
Ἀρχύτου ἐκ τοῦ Περὶ ἀρχᾶν.
Ἀρχὰ τᾶς τῶν ἐόντων γνώσιος τὰ αὐτόθεν φαινόμενα. Τῶν δ᾽ αὐτόθεν φαινομένων τὰ μὲν ἐντὶ νοατά, τὰ δ᾽ αἰσθατά· νοατὰ μὲν τὰ ἀκίνητα, αἰσθατὰ δὲ τὰ κινεόμενα. Κριτήριον δὲ τῶν μὲν νοατῶν ὁ νόος, τῶν δ᾽ αἰσθατῶν ἁ αἴσθασις. Τῶν δὲ μὴ αὐτόθεν φαινομένων τὰ μὲν ἐντὶ ἐπιστατά, τὰ δὲ δοξαστά· ἐπιστατὰ μὲν τὰ ἀκίνητα, δοξαστὰ δὲ τὰ κινεόμενα.
5.2
Δεῖ δὲ ταῦτα τρία νοᾶσαι, τό τε κρῖνον καὶ τὸ κρινόμενον καὶ ποθ᾽ ὅπερ κρίνεται. Καὶ τὸ μὲν κρῖνον εἶμεν τὸν νόον καὶ τὰν αἴσθασιν, τὸ δὲ κρινόμενον τὸν λόγον· ποθ᾽ ὅπερ δὲ κρίνεται τὸ αὐτόθεν φαινόμενον· τούτω δὲ τὸ μὲν νοατόν, τὸ δ᾽ αἰσθατόν. Ἐπικρίνει δὲ ὁ νόος τὸν λόγον, ὁκὰ μὲν ποτὶ τὸ νοατὸν ποτιβάλλων, ὁκὰ δὲ ποτὶ τὸ αἰσθατόν. Ὅκκα μὲν γὰρ περὶ νοατῶν μαστεύηται ὁ λόγος, ποτὶ τὸ νοατὸν ποτιβάλλει, ὅκκα δὲ περὶ αἰσθατῶν, ποτὶ τὸ αἰσθατόν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8475.1 · Archytas: what is immediately evident
From Archytas, On Principles.
The starting point of knowledge of things that exist is what is immediately evident. Of things immediately evident, some are intelligible and others perceptible: the intelligible are unmoving, the perceptible moving. The criterion of the intelligible is intellect, and that of the perceptible is sense-perception. Of things not immediately evident, some are objects of knowledge and others of opinion: the unmoving are objects of knowledge, the moving of opinion.1095
5.2 · Judge, account, and standard
We must understand these three: what judges, what is judged, and the standard against which it is judged. What judges is intellect and sense-perception; what is judged is the account; the standard against which it is judged is what is immediately evident, either intelligible or perceptible. Intellect judges the account by comparing it now with the intelligible, now with the perceptible. For when the account investigates intelligible things, it makes the comparison with the intelligible; when perceptible things, with the perceptible.1096
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