a quam falsa cernimus_.
_Ut inter rectum et pravum_: the sceptic would no more allow the absolute
certainty of this distinction than of the other. _Communis_: the [Greek:
aparallaktos] of Sextus; "in whose vision true and false are confused." Cf.
[Greek: koine phantasia alethous kai pseudous] Sext. _A.M._ VII. 164 (R.
and P. 410), also 175. _Notam_: the [Greek: semeion] of Sextus; cf. esp.
_P.H_. II. 97 sq. _Eodem modo falsum_: Sext. _A.M._ VII. 164 (R. and P.
410) [Greek: oudemia estin alethes phantasia hoia ouk an genoito pseudes].
_Ut si quis_: Madv. in an important n. on _D.F._ IV. 30 explains this thus;
_ista ratione si quis ... privaverit, possit dicere_. I do not think our
passage at all analogous to those he quotes, and still prefer to construe
_quem_ as a strong relative, making a pause between _quis_ and _quem_.
_Visionem_: Simply another trans. of [Greek: phantasia]. _Ut Carneades_:
see Sext. _A.M._ VII. 166 [Greek: ten te pithanen phantasian kai ten
pithanen hama kai aperispaston kai diexodeumenen] (R. and P. 411). As the
trans. of the latter phrase in Zeller 524 "probable undisputed and tested"
is imperfect, I will give Sextus' own explanation. The merely [Greek:
pithane] is that sensation which at first sight, without any further
inquiry, seems probably true (Sext. _A.M._ VII. 167--175). Now no sensation
is perceived _alone_; the percipient subject has always other synchronous
sensations which are able to turn him aside ([Greek: perispan, perielkein])
from the one which is the immediate object of his attention. This last is
only called [Greek: aperispastos] when examination has shown all the
concomitant sensations to be in harmony with it. (Sext. as above 175--181.)
The word "undisputed," therefore, is a misleading trans. of the term. The
[Greek: diexodeumene] ("thoroughly explored") requires more than a mere
apparent agreement of the concomitant sensations with the principal one.
Circumstances quite external to the sensations themselves must be examined;
the time at which they occur, or during which they continue; the condition
of the space within which they occur, and the apparent intervals between
the person and the objects; the state of the air; the disposition of the
person's mind, and the soundness or unsoundness of his eyes (Sext.
181--189).
Sec.34. _Communitas_: [Greek: aparallaxia] or [Greek: epimixia ton
phantasion]; Sext. _A.M._ VII. 403, _P.H._ I. 127. _Proprium_: so Sext.
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