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Single Idea 1806
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
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Full Idea
Sixth mode: the perception of an object depends on surrounding conditions (sunlight and lamplight).
Gist of Idea
Perception of objects depends on surrounding conditions (Mode 6)
Source
report of Pyrrho (reports [c.325 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.9
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.411
The
31 ideas
with the same theme
[knowledge varies according to points of view]:
412
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If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter
[Xenophanes]
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417
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Donkeys prefer chaff to gold
[Heraclitus]
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426
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Sea water is life-giving for fish, but not for people
[Heraclitus]
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436
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A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig
[Epicharmus]
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3305
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There is no more purely metaphysical doctrine than Protagorean relativism
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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1547
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Man is the measure of all things - of things that are, and of things that are not
[Protagoras]
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1804
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Perception varies with madness or disease (Mode 4)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1806
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Perception of objects depends on surrounding conditions (Mode 6)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1802
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Individuals vary in responses and feelings (Mode 2)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1807
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Perception varies with viewing distance and angle (Mode 7)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1810
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Perception and judgement depend on comparison (Mode 10)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1805
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Judgements vary according to local culture and law (Mode 5)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1808
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Perception of things depends on their size or quantity (Mode 8)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1803
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Objects vary according to which sense perceives them (Mode 3)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1809
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Perception is affected by expectations (Mode 9)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1801
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Animals vary in their feelings and judgements (Mode 1)
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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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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1482
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If two people disagree over taste, who is right?
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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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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1814
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Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13)
[Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
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1874
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How can we judge between our impressions and those of other animals, when we ourselves are involved?
[Sext.Empiricus]
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6578
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For Kant, experience is relative to a scheme, but there are no further possible schemes
[Kant, by Fogelin]
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24124
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We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on
[Nietzsche]
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23209
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Each of our personal drives has its own perspective
[Nietzsche]
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4423
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We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved
[Nietzsche]
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4420
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There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view
[Nietzsche]
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4486
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The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world
[Nietzsche]
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7424
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Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration
[Foucault]
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21942
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Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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4709
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Ontological relativists are anti-realists, who deny that our theories carve nature at the joints
[O'Grady]
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6583
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Radical perspectivism replaces Kant's necessary scheme with many different schemes
[Fogelin]
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