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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)