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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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Clear But Not Convincing Evidence 1
- Cassius
October 14, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Logical Fallacies Addressed In Epicurean Texts
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Methods Or Considerations In Thinking 8
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What Are The Essential Elements Of Any Canonical Faculty According to Epicurus?
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June 12, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode Seven "Backbone of the Night" - Good Summary of Problems with Plato 13
- Cassius
January 24, 2023 at 6:57 PM
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How To Place Epicurus In Relation To "Nominalism"? 25
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Cartesian beliefs on sensory perception vs Epicurean knowledge acquired through the senses 6
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April 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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V. Tsouna on "The method of multiple explanations" - Presentation and PDF
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February 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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An Essay by Francis Bacon "Of Truth"
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August 30, 2023 at 11:32 PM
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A Canonics Project - Drawing A Diagram To Illustrate Key Aspects of Epicurean Canonics / Epistemology 1
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Article by Zucca - Lucretius And The Epicurean View That All Perceptions Are True
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February 2, 2022 at 10:47 AM
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Is reality real? (from Big Think) 20
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"Universals In Ancient Philosophy" - Several Helpful Chapters 7
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December 31, 2021 at 10:37 AM
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Propositional Logic, Truth Tables, and Epicurus' Objection to "Dialectic" 39
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September 5, 2021 at 10:52 AM
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George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 7 "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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September 20, 2021 at 3:09 PM
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Issues In The Meaning And Definition of Logic 66
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August 17, 2021 at 9:10 AM
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"Are Intellectual Pleasures Found in Sense-Perception"
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August 14, 2021 at 1:44 PM
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Recent Article on "All Perceptions Are True" 2
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May 19, 2021 at 9:12 AM
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Thoughts On The Alleged "Fourth Leg of the Canon"
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May 3, 2021 at 8:49 AM
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Epicurean Epilogismos - Phillip de Lacy
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Frances Wright's "On The Nature of Knowledge" - How Epicurean Is It? 1
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January 26, 2021 at 7:05 AM
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Epicurus' View of Aristotle's "Theory of Universals"
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January 26, 2021 at 8:16 AM
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Dialectics and Hypothetical Questions 4
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Making Epicurean Canonics Understandable 15
- Susan Hill
October 30, 2020 at 6:49 PM
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November 1, 2020 at 8:56 AM
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Epicurean Outlooks on Skepticism 6
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October 20, 2020 at 11:04 AM
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Would Epicurus Endorse "Occam's Razor?"
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August 29, 2020 at 4:01 PM
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Article by Norman DeWitt: Epicurus, ΠϵρὶΦαντασίας (Present Impressions of the Mind) 2
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Epistemology and Meteorology: Epicureanism and Scientific Debates 3
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February 21, 2020 at 6:22 AM
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"Dualism" and "Philology" 16
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January 22, 2020 at 11:18 PM
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Fixed or Unfixed 13
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EpicureanFriends Status Report / Thanks-giving in October
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October 11, 2024 at 10:15 AM - General Discussion
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The Three Μοῖραι 8
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Looking for a book recommendation 12
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June 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM - General Discussion
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First Monday Meeting. Hurricane Milton, and Other Topics 1
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October 7, 2024 at 9:31 PM - General Discussion
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Altruism 11
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM - General Discussion
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