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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.14.3–I.49.15.1
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p. 106014.3
καὶ πότερον τὸ αἷμά ἐστιν ᾧ φρονοῦμεν, ἢ ὁ ἀὴρ ἢ τὸ πῦρ, ἢ τούτων μὲν οὐδέν, ὁ δὲ ἐγκέφαλός ἐστιν ὁ τὰς αἰσθήσεις παρέχων τοῦ ἀκούειν καὶ τοῦ ὁρᾶν καὶ ὀσφραίνεσθαι, ἐκ τούτων δὲ γίγνοιτο μνήμη καὶ δόξα, ἐκ δὲ μνήμης καὶ δόξης λαβούσης τὸ ἠρεμεῖν κατὰ ταῦτα γίγνεσθαι ἐπιστήμην· καὶ αὖ τούτων τὰς φθορὰς σκοπῶν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν οὐρανόν τε καὶ τὴν γῆν πάθη, τελευτῶν οὕτως ἐμαυτῷ ἔδοξα πρὸς ταύτην τὴν σκέψιν ἀφυὴς εἶναι, ὡς οὐδὲν χρῆμα.
15.1 · Πλάτωνος
Πλάτωνος.
Τὸ γὰρ μὴ διελέσθαι οἷόν τε εἶναι ὅτι ἄλλο μέν τί ἐστι τὸ αἴτιον τῷ ὄντι, ἄλλο δὲ ἐκεῖνο ἄνευ οὗ τὸ αἴτιον οὐκ ἄν ποτ᾽ εἴη αἴτιον· ὃ δή μοι φαίνονται ψηλαφῶντες οἱ πολλοὶ ὥσπερ ἐν σκότει, ἀλλοτρίῳ ὀνόματι προσχρώμενοι, ὡς αἴτιον αὐτὸ προσαγορεύειν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 106114.3 · Perception, memory, and knowledge
“And is blood that by which we think, or air, or fire? Or is it none of these, but the brain that provides the perceptions of hearing, seeing, and smelling, from which memory and opinion might arise, and from memory and opinion, once it has become stable in these respects, knowledge comes into being? Examining in turn the destruction of these things, and what happens concerning heaven and earth, I finally thought myself utterly without aptitude for this inquiry.”1330
15.1 · Plato: a cause and its conditions
Plato.
For to be unable to distinguish that the real cause is one thing, and that without which the cause could never be a cause is another! Most people seem to me to grope at this latter thing as though in darkness and, applying a name that does not belong to it, call it the cause.1331
Socrates
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