450. Stoic epistemology and humility about knowledge

19/09/2019 3 min

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Episode Synopsis

Cicero's reports a famous metaphor used by Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, to explain the progression from perception to assent to comprehension to knowledge. Which is then used as a reminder about the limits of our own knowledge.