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Plutarch's defense of suspension of judgment does not amount to a dismissal of the senses

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1.Plutarch holds that the senses have limited application, not that they are worthless
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2.The senses can inform us about the sensible world, even if not about being itself
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1.Plutarch's Academic skepticism follows Arcesilaus in treating epoché as a response to the senses' systematic failure to distinguish appearance from reality.
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2.A faculty that cannot reliably distinguish appearance from reality is not merely 'limited' but epistemically disqualified from serving as evidence.
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3.Restricting the senses to 'the sensible world' while denying them access to 'being itself' renders sensory testimony question-begging for any empirical claim.
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