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    Perfect knowledge requires transcending the sensible world and accessing the intelligible world

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    • 1.Perfect knowledge can only be knowledge of being
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    • 2.The sensible world is a world of appearances and generation, not of being
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    • 3.The senses can only inform us about the sensible world
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    • 1.Kant established that the categories of understanding structure experience such that objective knowledge arises precisely through the synthesis of sensibility and intellect.
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    • 2.A faculty of knowledge that requires abandoning sensibility altogether would lack the intuitive content necessary to generate any determinate cognition.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'transcending' the sensible world would produce empty abstractions, not perfect knowledge.
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    • 1.Aristotle demonstrated that substantial knowledge of universal forms is achievable through systematic abstraction from sensory experience itself.
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    • 2.If knowledge of universals can be derived immanently from particulars, the posited divide between sensible and intelligible realms is not epistemologically necessary.
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    SkepticismTruth & Knowledge

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Like the Hellenistic Philosophers and Antiochus, Plutarch appears to be particularly sensitive to the question of how we acquire knowledge. Plutarch sets out to defend the interpretation of Plato's epistemology maintained in the skeptical Academy. According to this interpretation, suspension of judgment (epochê) is the best way to avoid overhasty commitment to opinions (doxai), since the appearances on which they are based can be deceitful. Plutarch defends this epistemological position against
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