Canonics - General Discussion

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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    2. Prolepsis of the gods 40

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    2. Epicurus And The Pontius Pilate Question: "What Is Truth?" Does Epicurean Canonics Support "Objective Truth"? 4

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    2. "All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 5

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

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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

      • Cassius
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    2. Sorites Argument Referenced in Cicero's Academic Questions

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    2. How Do We Have Confidence In Dealing With Texts Written In Languages To Which We Are Not Native? 7

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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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    2. Clear But Not Convincing Evidence 7

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    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

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    4. Cassius

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    2. 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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    2. Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode Seven "Backbone of the Night" - Good Summary of Problems with Plato 13

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    2. How To Place Epicurus In Relation To "Nominalism"? 25

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

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    2. 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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    2. An Essay by Francis Bacon "Of Truth"

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      • 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

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      • February 5, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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    2. Article by Zucca - Lucretius And The Epicurean View That All Perceptions Are True

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    2. Is reality real? (from Big Think) 20

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

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      • December 31, 2021 at 10:37 AM
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    2. 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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    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."

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    2. Issues In The Meaning And Definition of Logic 66

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

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    2. Recent Article on "All Perceptions Are True" 2

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    2. Epicurean Epilogismos - Phillip de Lacy

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    2. Frances Wright's "On The Nature of Knowledge" - How Epicurean Is It? 1

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4

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    2. New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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