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DRN ESSAY TECHNIQUE (SIMULACRA (sense impressions (truth of sense…

- - - - Epicurus claims that when a perception is true, that is how the world really is
      - Epicurus - Cicero Lucullus 23.101 - 'if any sense perception is false, it is not possible to percieve anything'
      - Sceptic view
        
        if it is acknowledged that the senses can report the world untruthfully, it is no longer sufficient simply to maintain that generally the world is as it appears to be and we can usually tell when it is not
        
        Epicurean response
        
        epistimologist must take down the sceptic view to prove own
        
        Epistemologist - show how we can gain knowledge of the world
        
        sceptic - such knowledge cannot be achieved
      - Everson, S 'Epicurus on the truth of the senses'
        
        'if we try to read into Epicurus' claims an attempt to rebut at least a certain kind of sceptical strategy, then we shall misunderstand that his epistemology is about'
      - A. A. Long 'if we consider truth to be only a function of propositions and translate alethes by "true", Epicurus' usage will seem illegitimate [116]
        
        'Epicurus' application of alethes to feelings and sensations is perfectly intelligble if we take him to be saying that these necessarily give us a perch on certain facts, namely: that of which they are the awareness.'
      - Sextus
        
        [M VII. 203] perception is self evident, it is always true
        
        primary feelings (are alethe) - pleasure and pain, must be produced by pleasant and painful things respectvely to be produced
        
        !'that which produces each of them is always percieved entirely and, as percieved cannot bring about the perception unless it is in truth such as it appears.'
        
        ! but here alethes = 'true', rather than 'real', as what brings the primary feelings about is such that appears