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Platonic Ideal Forms, Aristotelian Essences, And Divine Revelation Do Not Exist

Plato's realm of perfect Forms, Aristotle's fixed essences, and claims of divine revelation each relocate truth away from the senses -- and each, for that reason, cannot be known to exist at all.

Cassius

August 25, 2026 at 8:19 AM

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Dialectical Logic And Radical Skepticism Do Not Determine Truth

Neither the Stoic and Peripatetic reliance on formal logic, nor the Academic Skeptic's distrust of the senses, keeps faith with the only genuine standard of truth: sensation, anticipation, and feeling.

Cassius

August 25, 2026 at 8:18 AM

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The Criteria Of Truth Are The Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings

Epicurus identified three co-equal natural faculties -- sensation, anticipation, and feeling -- that together form the Canon, the measuring-rule against which every claim to truth must be tested.

Cassius

August 25, 2026 at 8:17 AM

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All Sensations Are True

Our senses report honestly and without opinion; truth and error arise only in the mind's interpretation, never in the faculties Nature gave us to perceive the world.

Cassius

August 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM

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He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing

Radical Skepticism collapses under its own weight: anyone who claims 'nothing can be known' is claiming to know that very thing.

Cassius

August 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM

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The Completeness Argument, Cicero's Knowledge Of It, And The Epicurean Response

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The Completeness Argument

One of the oldest objections to placing the highest good in anything other than virtue runs like this: the good must be complete — whole, finished, lacking nothing — and cannot be a process, a becoming, or anything that admits of growth or degree. A thing that is still developing toward some end is not yet that end; it is only on the way to it. Plato gives this argument its classic statement, distinguishing genesis (becoming, a process aimed at…

Cassius

August 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM

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In An AI World, The Epicurean View of Knowledge Is More Important Than Ever

Epicurus had important things to say about happiness, pleasure, fear, and anxiety. But before the modern world reduced him to the status of a street-corner therapist, his most important contributions to human advancement

Cassius

May 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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There Is No True World - Truth And Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same

An Epicurean account of knowledge, nature, and the ground of reality An Epicurean Perspective On Reality One of the deepest and most consequential divisions in the history of philosophy runs not between optimism and pess

Cassius

April 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith By Dimitris Altas, cardiologist and member of the Analysis and Experiential Application Team of Epicurean Philosophy Today What is knowledge, and what is faith? One m

Elli

May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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"The Canon of Epicurus In Everyday Life"

The canon of Epicurus in everyday life.

Elli

June 16, 2019 at 8:37 AM

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