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Single Idea 1803

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

Full Idea

Third mode: things like an apple vary according to which sense perceives them (yellow, sweet, and fragrant).

Gist of Idea

Objects vary according to which sense perceives them (Mode 3)

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.410