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Ideas of Arcesilaus, by Text

[Greek, 315 - 242 BCE, Born in Pitane. Taught by Theophrastus. Head of the Academy in Athens, 268-4 BCE. Much-loved. Chrysippus was his pupil.]

275BCE fragments/reports
p.565 A false object might give the same presentation as a true one
     Full Idea: Arcesilaus said that no presentation proceeding from a true object is such that a presentation proceeding from a false one might not also be of the same form. This is the one argument that has held the field down to the present day.
     From: report of Arcesilaus (fragments/reports [c.275 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Academica II.24.77