Canonics - The Tests of Truth: The Five Senses, Anticipations, and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain (original) (raw)

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Epicurus held that his "Canon of Truth" is the key to confident level, and the antidote to both unfounded dogmatism and radical skepticism.

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