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Single Idea 13257
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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Full Idea
Owing to the feebleness of the sense, we are not able to determine the truth.
Gist of Idea
The senses are too feeble to determine the truth
Source
Anaxagoras (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B21), quoted by Patricia Curd - Anaxagoras 5.1
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.18
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.
Related Idea
Idea 13256
Nous is unlimited, self-ruling and pure; it is the finest thing, with great discernment and strength [Anaxagoras]
The
23 ideas
from 'fragments/reports'
21822
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One
[Anaxagoras, by Plotinus]
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17995
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Basic is the potentially perceptible, then comes the contrary qualities, and finally the 'elements'
[Anaxagoras]
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20802
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Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water
[Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
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22761
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We reveal unreliability in the senses when we cannot discriminate a slow change of colour
[Anaxagoras, by Sext.Empiricus]
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631
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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13784
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Mind is self-ruling, pure, ordering and ubiquitous
[Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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2629
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Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence
[Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
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5118
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Anaxagoras says mind remains pure, and so is not affected by what it changes
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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22727
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances
[Anaxagoras, by ]
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550
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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21383
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries
[Anaxagoras, by Vlastos]
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13208
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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367
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything
[Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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22726
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When things were unified, Mind set them in order
[Anaxagoras]
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5956
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Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone
[Anaxagoras, by Plutarch]
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7488
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Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist
[Anaxagoras, by Watson]
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18231
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Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens
[Anaxagoras]
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21382
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Things get smaller without end
[Anaxagoras]
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21381
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Germs contain microscopic organs, which become visible as they grow
[Anaxagoras]
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13256
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Nous is unlimited, self-ruling and pure; it is the finest thing, with great discernment and strength
[Anaxagoras]
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480
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Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind
[Anaxagoras]
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481
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Nothing is created or destroyed; there is only mixing and separation
[Anaxagoras]
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13257
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The senses are too feeble to determine the truth
[Anaxagoras]
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