PHIL 200 Lecture 10: Plato's Theatetus Phil 200 Lecture 10
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No two perceptions can be the same if everything is always in flux. No substantial being something constant in the universe incidental change does not change it--. If things are in constant flux, you cannot knowanything. All being undergoing change in all possible categories of change. If there is motion is it necessary that something is undergoing the motion. White other than white not white. Sense perception other than snese perception not sense perception. If you answer locomotion equals perception you don"t say what knowledge is but rather what it is not because perception changes. 186 c-d being= truth fail to grasp being= failure to grasp truth senses don"t group being. If senses don"t grasp being they cannot grasp truth. The trojan horse can"t perceive b/c not conscious. The tongue can make speech which expresses thought not sense perception though the tongue"s sense is taste.
