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Single Idea 1484
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
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Full Idea
We should make no assertion about the whole when our contact is with the parts.
Gist of Idea
We should say nothing of the whole if our contact is with the parts
Source
report of Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]) by Plutarch - 74: Reply to Colotes 1109e
Book Ref
Plutarch: 'Moralia - vol 14', ed/tr. Einarson,B. /De Lacy P.H. [Harvard Loeb 1967], p.203
The
46 ideas
from 'fragments/reports'
2670
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Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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1484
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We should say nothing of the whole if our contact is with the parts
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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21668
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Epicurus rejected excluded middle, because accepting it for events is fatalistic
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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21676
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Epicureans say disjunctions can be true whiile the disjuncts are not true
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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1822
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Reason can't judge senses, as it is based on them
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1482
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If two people disagree over taste, who is right?
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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1823
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We can't seek for things if we have no idea of them
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1824
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To name something, you must already have an idea of what it is
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1483
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Bath water is too hot for some, too cold for others
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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1820
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The criteria of truth are senses, preconceptions and passions
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1821
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Sensations cannot be judged, because similar sensations have equal value, and different ones have nothing in common
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1843
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Friendship is by far the most important ingredient of a complete and happy life
[Epicurus]
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2668
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Epicurus says if one of a man's senses ever lies, none of his senses should ever be believed
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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4549
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Epicurus denied knowledge in order to retain morality or hedonism as the highest values
[Nietzsche on Epicurus]
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1487
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When entering a dark room it is colourless, but colour gradually appears
[Epicurus]
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14526
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The rational soul is in the chest, and the non-rational soul is spread through the body
[Epicurus]
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6035
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Soul is made of four stuffs, giving warmth, rest, motion and perception
[Epicurus, by Aetius]
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2639
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Some say Epicurus only pretended to believe in the gods, so as not to offend Athenians
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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14527
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If god answered prayers we would be destroyed, because we pray for others to suffer
[Epicurus]
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6018
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Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian
[Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]
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20922
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Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms
[Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.]
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1909
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How can pleasure or judgement occur in a heap of atoms?
[Sext.Empiricus on Epicurus]
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7814
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It was Epicurus who made the question of the will's freedom central to ethics
[Epicurus, by Grayling]
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3562
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Fine things are worthless if they give no pleasure
[Epicurus]
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1840
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Pleasure is the chief good because it is the most natural, especially for animals
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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3557
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The end for Epicurus is static pleasure
[Epicurus, by Annas]
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1839
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Pains of the soul are worse than pains of the body, because it feels the past and future
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1842
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Pleasures only differ in their duration and the part of the body affected
[Epicurus]
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1845
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Justice has no independent existence, but arises entirely from keeping contracts
[Epicurus]
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1841
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We choose virtue because of pleasure, not for its own sake
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1829
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A wise man would be happy even under torture
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1831
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Wise men should partake of life even if they go blind
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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12044
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Only Epicurus denied purpose in nature, for the whole world, or for its parts
[Epicurus, by Annas]
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20907
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Democritus says atoms have size and shape, and Epicurus added weight
[Epicurus, by Ps-Plutarch]
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21669
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Atoms don't swerve by being struck, because they move in parallel, so the swerve is uncaused
[Cicero on Epicurus]
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21680
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What causes atomic swerves? Do they draw lots? What decides the size or number of swerves?
[Cicero on Epicurus]
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14525
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Stoics say time is incorporeal and self-sufficient; Epicurus says it is a property of properties of things
[Epicurus]
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2637
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For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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2633
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Epicurus saw that gods must exist, because nature has imprinted them on human minds
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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22733
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Epicurus accepted God in his popular works, but not in his writings on nature
[Epicurus, by Sext.Empiricus]
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13291
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Slavery to philosophy brings true freedom
[Epicurus]
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22758
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Philosophy aims at a happy life, through argument and discussion
[Epicurus]
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14523
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We should come to philosophy free from any taint of culture
[Epicurus]
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14516
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There is no necessity to live with necessity
[Epicurus]
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22240
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The aim of medicine is removal of sickness, and philosophy similarly removes our affections
[Epicurus]
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5949
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Epicurus says colours are relative to the eye, not intrinsic to bodies
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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