Canonics - The Tests of Truth: The Five Senses, Anticipations, and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain
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Epicurus held that his "Canon of Truth" is the key to confident level, and the antidote to both unfounded dogmatism and radical skepticism.
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Epicurus' Rejection of "Reductionist Atomism" (And The Related Issues of Skepticism and Determinism)Cassius
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Feeling: The Faculty of Pleasure and Pain
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Bryan
May 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Explaining Epicurus' Position On The "Size of the Sun" And Related Issues of Speculative Math / Geometry
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Cassius
April 21, 2021 at 2:19 PM CassiusMarch 1, 2021 at 8:59 AM
Issues relating to modern research will appear throughout the other forums, but this subforum is specifically devoted to modern researchers whose work is relevant to modern scientific perspectives on issues related to "canonics," including brain functions, rather than primarily philosophical in nature.
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