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  • 1. Introduction To Epicurean Canonics
  • 2. Knowledge
    • 2.1. He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing. Knowledge Is Possible And It Is Error To Be A Radical Skeptic
    • 2.2. The Purpose of Obtaining Knowledge Is Happiness (A Life Of Pleasure)
  • 3. Truth
    • 3.1. The Nature of Truth
    • 3.2. All Sensations Are True - Error Is In Opinion Rather Than The Senses
    • 3.3. Illusions Do Not Invalidate The Senses
  • 4. The Three Categories Of Natural Faculties
    • 4.1. The Faculty Of Anticipations Or "Prolepsis"
    • 4.2. The Faculty Of The Five Senses
    • 4.3. The Faculty Of Pleasure And Pain, Which Encompasses All Feelings, Without Any Neutral State Or Third Alternative
  • 5. The Nature And Effect Of Images
  • 6. Methodology
    • 6.1. The Priority Of Nature Over "Logic" And Rejection of Dialectic
    • 6.2. Practical Deductive Reasoning
    • 6.3. The Importance of Clarity
    • 6.4. "Waiting" And The Status Of Multiple Possibilities

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  • 1. Introduction To Epicurean Canonics

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    2. Knowledge

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    2.1. He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing. Knowledge Is Possible And It Is Error To Be A Radical Skeptic

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    2.2. The Purpose of Obtaining Knowledge Is Happiness (A Life Of Pleasure)

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    3. Truth

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    3.1. The Nature of Truth

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    3.2. All Sensations Are True - Error Is In Opinion Rather Than The Senses

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    3.3. Illusions Do Not Invalidate The Senses

    4. The Three Categories Of Natural Faculties

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    4.1. The Faculty Of Anticipations Or "Prolepsis"

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    4.2. The Faculty Of The Five Senses

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    4.3. The Faculty Of Pleasure And Pain, Which Encompasses All Feelings, Without Any Neutral State Or Third Alternative


    5. The Nature And Effect Of Images

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    6. Methodology

    6.1. The Priority Of Nature Over "Logic" And Rejection of Dialectic

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    6.2. Practical Deductive Reasoning

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    6.3. The Importance of Clarity

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    6.4. "Waiting" And The Status Of Multiple Possibilities

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