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    2. Thoughts On The Alleged "Fourth Leg of the Canon" 2

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    2. A Canonics Project - Drawing A Diagram To Illustrate Key Aspects of Epicurean Canonics / Epistemology 4

      • Cassius
      • January 13, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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    2. Sorites Argument Referenced in Cicero's Academic Questions

      • Cassius
      • March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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    2. How Do We Have Confidence In Dealing With Texts Written In Languages To Which We Are Not Native? 7

      • Cassius
      • January 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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    4. Pacatus

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    2. Suggested on Facebook As Possibly Relevant to Epicurean Canonics "Wilding the Predictive Brain"

      • Cassius
      • December 15, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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    2. Perspectivism

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      • December 3, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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    2. Clear But Not Convincing Evidence 7

      • Cassius
      • October 14, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 22, 2024 at 5:26 AM

    2. Logical Fallacies Addressed In Epicurean Texts

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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    2. Methods Or Considerations In Thinking 8

      • Cassius
      • July 25, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM

    2. What Are The Essential Elements Of Any Canonical Faculty According to Epicurus?

      • Cassius
      • June 12, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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    2. 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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    2. How To Place Epicurus In Relation To "Nominalism"? 25

      • Cassius
      • May 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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    4. Joshua

      May 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM

    2. Cartesian beliefs on sensory perception vs Epicurean knowledge acquired through the senses 6

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      • April 30, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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    4. Cassius

      April 30, 2024 at 6:06 PM

    2. V. Tsouna on "The method of multiple explanations" - Presentation and PDF

      • Kalosyni
      • February 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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    2. An Essay by Francis Bacon "Of Truth"

      • Joshua
      • August 30, 2023 at 11:32 PM
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    2. As To The Three Legs Of The Canon (Sensations, Feelings, Anticipations) Is it Possible to Experience (Receive Data?) From One Without The Others? 39

      • Cassius
      • February 5, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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      • February 15, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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    4. Little Rocker

      February 15, 2023 at 2:04 PM

    2. Article by Zucca - Lucretius And The Epicurean View That All Perceptions Are True

      • Cassius
      • February 2, 2022 at 10:47 AM
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    2. Is reality real? (from Big Think) 20

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      • January 10, 2022 at 12:56 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 11, 2022 at 3:48 PM

    2. "Universals In Ancient Philosophy" - Several Helpful Chapters 7

      • Cassius
      • December 31, 2021 at 10:37 AM
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    2. Propositional Logic, Truth Tables, and Epicurus' Objection to "Dialectic" 39

      • Cassius
      • September 5, 2021 at 10:52 AM
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      • October 12, 2021 at 3:47 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 12, 2021 at 3:47 PM

    2. 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."

      • Cassius
      • September 20, 2021 at 3:09 PM
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    2. Issues In The Meaning And Definition of Logic 66

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    4. Cassius

      August 27, 2021 at 3:30 PM

    2. "Are Intellectual Pleasures Found in Sense-Perception"

      • Cassius
      • August 14, 2021 at 1:44 PM
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    2. Recent Article on "All Perceptions Are True" 2

      • Cassius
      • May 19, 2021 at 11:39 AM
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    2. Epicurean Epilogismos - Phillip de Lacy

      • Cassius
      • March 3, 2021 at 8:43 AM
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    2. 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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    2. Epicurus' View of Aristotle's "Theory of Universals"

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2021 at 8:16 AM
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    2. Dialectics and Hypothetical Questions 4

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      • January 18, 2021 at 7:05 PM
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    2. Making Epicurean Canonics Understandable 15

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      • October 30, 2020 at 6:49 PM
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    2. Epicurean Outlooks on Skepticism 6

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