Single Idea 1810

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

Full Idea

Tenth mode: perceptions and judgements depend on comparison (light/heavy, above/below).

Gist of Idea

Perception and judgement depend on comparison (Mode 10)

Source

report of Pyrrho (reports [c.325 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.9

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.412