Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
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(1) by presentation, as objects of sense
(2) by likeness, as the idea of Socrates from his picture (3) by analogy, that is, by increase or decrease, as ideas of giants and pigmies from men, or as the notion of the centre of the earth, which is reached by the consideration of smaller spheres. (4) by transposition, as the idea of men with eyes in their breasts. (5) by composition, as the idea of a Centaur. (6) by opposition, as the idea of death from that of life. (7) by a kind of transition, as the meaning of words and the idea of place. (8)by nature, as the notion of the just and the good (9)by privation, as handless The Stoics resembled Locke again in endeavoring to give such a definition of knowledge as should cover at once the reports of the senses and the relation between ideas. Knowledge was defined by them as a sure comprehension or a habit in the acceptance of phantasies which was not liable to be changed by reason. On a first hearing these definitions might seem limited to sense knowledge but if we bethink ourselves of the wider meanings of comprehension and of phantasy, we see that the definitions apply as they were meant to apply to the mind's grasp upon the force of a demonstration no less |
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