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that it is larger
than the earth”.
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
than the earth”.
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