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Epicureanism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Theo Bure's Pragmatic Attack on the Skeptics

Epicurus is physical doctrine of perception, and how that might bolster his confidence in the way our senses were. So he goes on the attack against the sceptics. He says if you look at how a sceptic lives their life, they don't really disbelieve what their senses tell them. No one really does leave a room by the door or walks out into the road in front of moving traffic because they really don't believe the way tat their eyes are telling them things look.

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