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Further, when the doctor orders people to take some particular
food, why do they take it? In what respect is 'this is bread' truer
than 'this is not bread'? And so it would make no difference whether
one ate or not. But as a matter of fact they take the food which is
ordered, assuming that they know the truth about it and that it is
bread. Yet they should not, if there were no fixed constant nature
in sensible things, but all natures moved and flowed for ever.
Again, if we are always changing and never remain the same, what
wonder is it if to us, as to the sick, things never appear the same?
(For to them also, because they are not in the same condition as
when they were well, sensible qualities do not appear alike; yet,
for all that, the sensible things themselves need not share in any
change, though they produce different, and not identical, sensations
in the sick. And the same must surely happen to the healthy if the
afore-said change takes place.) But if we do not change but remain the
same, there will be something that endures.
As for those to whom the difficulties mentioned are suggested by
reasoning, it is not easy to solve the difficulties to their
satisfaction, unless they will posit something and no longer demand
a reason for it; for it is only thus that all reasoning and all
proof is accomplished; if they posit nothing, they destroy
discussion and all reasoning
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