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Single Idea 1814

[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism ]

Full Idea

Thirteenth mode: everything is always perceived in relation to something else.

Gist of Idea

Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13)

Source

report of Agrippa (fragments/reports [c.60]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.10

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.413


The 6 ideas from 'fragments/reports'

All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]