Single Idea 1482

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism]

Full Idea

If one person says the wine is dry and the other that it is sweet, and neither errs in his sensation, how is the wine any more dry than sweet?

Gist of Idea

If two people disagree over taste, who is right?

Source

report of Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]) by Plutarch - 74: Reply to Colotes 1109b

Book Reference

Plutarch: 'Moralia - vol 14', ed/tr. Einarson,B. /De Lacy P.H. [Harvard Loeb 1967], p.201