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    • 1.Nature is accustomed to hide itself (DKB123/LMD35).
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    • 2.Phenomena are signs or evidence of a larger order that must be interpreted.
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    • 3.Lovers of wisdom must be good inquirers into many things (DKB35/LMD40).
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    • 1.Pyrrhonian skepticism demonstrates that 'careful inquiry' produces equally weighted opposing arguments (isostheneia), yielding suspension of judgment rather than knowledge.
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    • 2.If systematic inquiry reliably produces equipollent contradictions, the prescription to inquire more carefully offers no epistemic advantage over sensory evidence alone.
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    • 1.Heraclitus himself concedes that logos is ever-present yet humans fail to comprehend it even after hearing it (DKB1/LMD1), suggesting cognitive limits that no method of inquiry can overcome.
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    • 2.If the very faculty of reason used in 'careful inquiry' is constitutively prone to misunderstanding the logos it seeks, adding more inquiry compounds rather than corrects the epistemic failure.
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    Heraclitus regards the cosmos as an ordered system like a language that can be read or heard and understood by those who are attuned to it. That language is not just the physical evidence around us (“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to those with barbarian souls” DKB107/LMD33); the sheer accumulation of information is not the same as wisdom (see the rebuke in DK22B40/LMD20, quoted above). Although the evidence of the senses is important (see DKB55/LMD31), careful and thoughtful inquiry is also ne
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    Pyrrhonian skepticism demonstrates that 'careful inquiry' produces equally weigh...
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