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    Sensory evidence alone is insufficient for wisdom. — Carmelics
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    Sensory evidence alone is insufficient for wisdom.

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    • 1.Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to those with barbarian souls (DKB107/LMD33).
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    • 2.The sheer accumulation of information is not the same as wisdom (DKB40/LMD20).
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Metaphysics (980a21) that perception of particulars is the necessary foundation from which all knowledge, including wisdom, must be built.
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    • 2.Without reliable sensory input, the universal concepts Heraclitus privileges would have no empirical anchor and would collapse into groundless abstraction.
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    • 1.The Stoic doctrine of kataleptic impressions holds that certain vivid, clear perceptions compel rational assent and constitute genuine cognitive grasp of reality.
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    • 2.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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    Aristotle argues in the Metaphysics (980a21) that perception of particulars is t...Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to those with barbarian souls (DKB107/LMD33).If some sensory impressions carry their own criterion of truth, then sensory evi...The Stoic doctrine of kataleptic impressions holds that certain vivid, clear per...
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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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