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    If some sensory impressions carry their own criterion of truth, then sensory evidence is not merely insufficient but can itself constitute a form of wisdom about the world's structure.

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    Sensory evidence(as used in epistemology)
    Information we gather through our five senses—what we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell.
    World's structure(as used in metaphysics and epistemology)
    The fundamental way reality is organized and put together—the basic nature and patterns of how things exist and relate to each other.
    criterion of truth(Stoic epistemology)
    A standard or impression whose acceptance reliably guarantees truth, used by the Stoics to ground knowledge against skeptical challenges.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
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    The raw, direct experiences you have through your five senses—like the redness you see when looking at an apple or the heat you feel from a fire.
    wisdom(Contrasted explicitly with polymathy and raw sensory experience.)
    Not the accumulation of sensory information, but the capacity to grasp how phenomena function as signs of the larger cosmic order.

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