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Book I Chapter 58 · I.58.1.3
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p. 16881.3
Κριτήρια δ᾽ εἶναι τῆς τούτων γνώσεως τόν τε νοῦν καὶ τὴν αἴσθησιν, τὸν μὲν τῶν νοητῶν, τὴν δὲ τῶν αἰσθητῶν. Οὔτε γὰρ τὸ καθόλου δύναιτ᾽ ἂν αἴσθησις ἐπικρίνειν οὔτε τὸ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον νοῦς. Πάντα δ᾽ ἐκ τούτων συνεστάναι καὶ διὰ τούτων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 58
p. 16891.3 · Intellect and perception as criteria
The criteria for knowledge of these things are intellect and perception: intellect for intelligible things, perception for perceptible things. For perception could not judge the universal, nor intellect the particular. Everything is constituted from these and through these.2056
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