The natural way to try to choose between these two interpretations is to see which of them fits best with the logic of the passage as a whole. Unfortunately, a neutral decision on this does not seem be possible. According to the manuscripts, the phrase that follows the words we have been discussing reads “for this reason (dia touto) neither our sensations nor our opinions tell the truth or lie”. On the metaphysical interpretation, the idea would be that, since things are in their real nature ind