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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. often uses [Greek: id
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