431 | Health, feeding and rest are only made good by disease, hunger and weariness [Heraclitus] |
462 | One vision is produced by both eyes [Empedocles] |
3313 | If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself [Benardete,JA on Protagoras] |
3317 | You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object [Benardete,JA on Protagoras] |
584 | If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation [Aristotle] |
585 | If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes? [Aristotle] |
2975 | That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so [Timon] |
1878 | Water that seems lukewarm can seem very hot on inflamed skin [Sext.Empiricus] |
1879 | Sickness is perfectly natural to the sick, so their natural perceptions should carry some weight [Sext.Empiricus] |
1880 | Some actions seem shameful when sober but not when drunk [Sext.Empiricus] |
1876 | If we enjoy different things, presumably we receive different impressions [Sext.Empiricus] |
1877 | If we had no hearing or sight, we would assume no sound or sight exists, so there may be unsensed qualities [Sext.Empiricus] |
3932 | A hot hand and a cold hand will have different experiences in the same tepid water [Berkeley] |
7541 | Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe] |
6579 | Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality [Nietzsche, by Fogelin] |
24083 | It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche] |
7149 | Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives [Nietzsche] |
7169 | Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings? [Nietzsche] |
7182 | 'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings [Nietzsche] |
7183 | 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche] |
7133 | It is tempting to think many eyes means many truths - so not truth [Nietzsche] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |