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. For they think that the truth
should not be determined by the large or small number of those who
hold a belief, and that the same thing is thought sweet by some when
they taste it, and bitter by others, so that if all were ill or all
were mad, and only two or three were well or sane, these would be
thought ill and mad, and not the others.
And again, they say that many of the other animals receive
impressions contrary to ours; and that even to the senses of each
individual, things do not always seem the same. Which, then, of
these impressions are true and which are false is not obvious; for the
one set is no more true than the other, but both are alike. And this
is why Democritus, at any rate, says that either there is no truth
or to us at least it is not evident.
And in general it is because these thinkers suppose knowledge to
be sensation, and this to be a physical alteration, that they say that
what appears to our senses must be true; for it is for these reasons
that both Empedocles and Democritus and, one may almost say, all the
others have fallen victims to opinions of this sort. For Empedocles
says that when men change their condition they change their knowledge;
For wisdom increases in men according to what is before them.
And elsewhere he says that:-
So far as their nature changed, so far to them always
Came changed thoughts into mind
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