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    False impressions that are subjectively indiscernible from cognitive impressions do not show that there are no cognitive impressions.

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    • 1.The Stoic definition of a cognitive impression does not require that cognitive impressions be subjectively distinguishable from false impressions.
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    • 2.The existence of indiscernible false impressions only challenges cognitive impressions if the definition requires subjective distinguishability.
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    • 1.If two impressions are subjectively indiscernible, no internal criterion can reliably distinguish the cognitive from the non-cognitive.
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    • 2.A criterion of truth that cannot be applied in practice by the cognizing subject fails its epistemic function.
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    • 3.The Stoic cognitive impression was introduced precisely as a practical criterion for when assent is epistemically warranted.
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    • 1.Arcesilaus's challenge, preserved in Sextus Empiricus, is that indiscernibility of false impressions collapses the cognitive impression into a mere externalist definition with no action-guiding force.
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    • 2.A definition of knowledge that divorces subjective access from epistemic warrant cannot ground the Stoic practical ideal of the sage who withholds assent from non-cognitive impressions.
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    So where does this leave the matter? If this is the right way to understand the definition of the Stoic cognitive impression, then it would seem that they win their argument with the Skeptics. Examples of false impressions that are subjectively indiscernible from clear and distinct, true, ones do not show that there are no cognitive impressions. However, the admission that a cognitive impression might be subjectively indistinguishable from a false impression does alter the sense in which the cog
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