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Full Idea
What can be a surer guide to the distinction of true from false than our own senses?
Gist of Idea
The senses are much the best way to distinguish true from false
Source
Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.700)
Book Ref
Lucretius: 'On the Nature of the Universe', ed/tr. Latham,Ronald [Penguin 1951], p.47
A Reaction
This doesn't say they are the only guide, which leaves room for guides such as what is consistent or self-evident or inferred. There is enough here, though, to show that the Epicureans were empiricists in a fairly modern way.