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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: unintelligible Heraclitean paradoxes.'
IV. Still at the bottom of the arguments there remains a truth, that
knowledge is something more than sensible perception;--this alone would not
distinguish man from a tadpole. The absoluteness of sensations at each
moment destroys the very consciousness of sensations (compare Phileb.), or
the power of comparing them. The senses are not mere holes in a 'Trojan
horse,' but the organs of a presiding nature, in which they meet. A great
advance has been made in psychology when the senses are recognized as
organs of sense, and we are admitted to see or feel 'through them' and not
'by them,' a distinction of words which, as Socrates observes, is by no
means pedantic. A still further step has been made when the most abstract
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