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Single Idea 1807

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism]

Full Idea

Seventh mode: perception varies according to viewing distance and angle (the sun, and a dove's neck).

Gist of Idea

Perception varies with viewing distance and angle (Mode 7)

Source

report of Pyrrho (reports [c.325 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.9

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.411