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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism' and 'What is Cantor's Continuum Problem?'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

1883	How can the intellect know if sensation is reliable if it doesn't directly see external objects? [Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: Just as you can't know if a portrait of Socrates is good without seeing the man, so when the intellect gazes on sensations but not the external objects it cannot know whether they are similar.
	From: Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism [c.180], II.75)

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

1890	We distinguish ambiguities by seeing what is useful [Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: It is the experience of what is useful in each affair that brings about the distinguishing of ambiguities.
	From: Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism [c.180], II.258)