Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 4.9 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 4.9 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

WHETHKR WHAT APPEARS TO OUR SENSES AND IMAGINATIONS BB TRUE OR NOT. The Stoics say that what the senses represent is true ; what the imagination, is partly false, partly true. Epicurus, that every impression wliich either the sense or fancy gives us is true, but of those things that fall under the account of opinion, some are true, some false : sense gives us a false representation of those things only which are the objects of our understanding ; but the fancy gives us a double error, both of things sensible and tilings intellectual. Empedocles and Ileraclides, that tlie senses perceive by a just accommodation of the pores in every case ; every thing that is perceived by the sense being congruously adapted to its proper or£]^im.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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