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Single Idea 1484

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division ]

Full Idea

We should make no assertion about the whole when our contact is with the parts.

Gist of Idea

We should say nothing of the whole if our contact is with the parts

Source

report of Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]) by Plutarch - 74: Reply to Colotes 1109e

Book Ref

Plutarch: 'Moralia - vol 14', ed/tr. Einarson,B. /De Lacy P.H. [Harvard Loeb 1967], p.203