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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

13257	The senses are too feeble to determine the truth [Anaxagoras]
	Full Idea: Owing to the feebleness of the sense, we are not able to determine the truth.
	From: Anaxagoras (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B21), quoted by Patricia Curd - Anaxagoras 5.1
	A reaction: Anaxagoras offers a corresponding elevation of the power of mind (Idea 13256), so I now realise that he is, along with Pythagoras and Parmenides, one of the fathers of rationalism in philosophy. They probably overrate reason.