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Full Idea
You cannot understand anything through perception. Demonstrations are universal, and universals cannot be perceived.
Gist of Idea
You cannot understand anything through perception
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 87b28)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.42