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The_Savior_from_Spiritual_Error, page : 42
In this and similar cases of sensible knowledge, the sense is a judge
making his judgments, but another judge, the intellect, shows him
repeatedly to be wrong; and the charge of falsity cannot be rebutted.
To this I said: “My reliance on sensible knowledge also has been
destroyed. Perhaps only those intellectual truths which are first principles
(or derived from first principles) are to be relied upon, such as the assertion
that ten is more than three, that the same thing cannot be both affirmed and
denied at one time, that one thing is not both generated in time and eternal,
nor both existent and non-existent, nor both necessary and impossible”.
Sensible knowledge replied: “Do you not expect that your reliance on
intellectual truths will fare like your reliance on sense-perception? You used
to trust in me; then along came the intellect judge and proved me wrong; if it
were not for the intellect judge you would have continued to regard me as
true. Perhaps behind intellectual apprehension there is another judge who,
if he manifests himself, will show the falsity of intellect in its judging, just as,
when intellect manifested itself, it showed the falsity of sense in its judging.
making his judgments, but another judge, the intellect, shows him
repeatedly to be wrong; and the charge of falsity cannot be rebutted.
To this I said: “My reliance on sensible knowledge also has been
destroyed. Perhaps only those intellectual truths which are first principles
(or derived from first principles) are to be relied upon, such as the assertion
that ten is more than three, that the same thing cannot be both affirmed and
denied at one time, that one thing is not both generated in time and eternal,
nor both existent and non-existent, nor both necessary and impossible”.
Sensible knowledge replied: “Do you not expect that your reliance on
intellectual truths will fare like your reliance on sense-perception? You used
to trust in me; then along came the intellect judge and proved me wrong; if it
were not for the intellect judge you would have continued to regard me as
true. Perhaps behind intellectual apprehension there is another judge who,
if he manifests himself, will show the falsity of intellect in its judging, just as,
when intellect manifested itself, it showed the falsity of sense in its judging.