The Sorites Paradox - A Brief History of Hellenistic Philosophy

Stoic epistemology revolves around the task of showing that we can have certainty. They want to distinguish between true knowledge or understanding, and mere opinion. The stoics lay it on pretty thick when it comes to making this distinction. Those who have opinion and not knowledge only get at the truth by being lucky. After all, they lack certainty, so they could just as well have been wrong. Or perhaps i should say, the stoics compare us and ourselves, any one who is not a sage, to insane people.