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    Supports→False impressions that are subjectively indiscernible from cognitive impressions do not show that there are no cognitive impressions.

    The Stoic definition of a cognitive impression does not require that cognitive impressions be subjectively distinguishable from false impressions.

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    So where does this leave the matter? If this is the right way to understand the definition of the Stoic cognitive impression, then it would seem that they win their argument with the Skeptics. Examples of false impressions that are subjectively indiscernible from clear and distinct, true, ones do not show that there are no cognitive impressions. However, the admission that a cognitive impression might be subjectively indistinguishable from a false impression does alter the sense in which the cog

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