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Ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Kant's Analytic' and 'On the Nature of the Universe'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations

5697	The only possible standard for settling doubts is the foundation of the senses [Lucretius]
	Full Idea: If a belief resting directly on the foundation of the senses is not valid, there will be no standard to which we can refer any doubt on obscure questions for rational confirmation.
	From: Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.422)
	A reaction: A classic statement of empiricist foundationalism. The Epicureans don't appear to have any time for a priori truths at all. I wonder if they settled mathematical disputes by counting objects and drawing diagrams?