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Full Idea
I possess a standard enabling me to judge presentations to be true when they have a character of a sort that false ones could not have.
Gist of Idea
A presentation is true if we judge that no false presentation could appear like it
Source
report of Zeno (Citium) (fragments/reports [c.294 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Academica II.18.58
Book Ref
Cicero: 'De Natura Deorum and Academica (XIX)', ed/tr. Rackham,H. [Harvard Loeb 1933], p.541
A Reaction
[This is a spokesman in Cicero for the early Stoic view] No sceptic will accept this, but it is pretty much how I operate. If you see something weird, like a leopard wandering wild in Hampshire, you believe it once you have eliminated possible deceptions.