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XXIII, 410 = XVI, 440, XXIII, 672, XIX, 487. XV, 536 = XVII, 163, XIX, 309. 32 The full message of lines 34 is that even if one succeeded above others in speaking of what is brought to pass, still he himself does not know, but belief or opinion is allotted to all things. 33 So while Xenophanes' scepticism about divination is revolutionary as a repudiation of the entire enterprise, it is not wholly without precedent. 34 Thus when Xenophanes asserts in B34 that no man has seen or know , 35 it is likely that he intends to deny that men ever enjoy sure or certain knowledge of the truth, even if they do sometimes succeed in saying it (and can, as in line 4, believe or suppose that it is true).
XXIII, 410 = XVI, 440, XXIII, 672, XIX, 487. XV, 536 = XVII, 163, XIX, 309. 32 The full message of lines 34 is that even if one succeeded above others in speaking of what is brought to pass, still he himself does not know, but belief or opinion is allotted to all things. 33 So while Xenophanes' scepticism about divination is revolutionary as a repudiation of the entire enterprise, it is not wholly without precedent. 34 Thus when Xenophanes asserts in B34 that no man has seen or know , 35 it is likely that he intends to deny that men ever enjoy sure or certain knowledge of the truth, even if they do sometimes succeed in saying it (and can, as in line 4, believe or suppose that it is true).
Baltimore, 1935. Chicago, 1908. 12945. " Hermes 82 (1954): 12945. 15 (1965): 14. Wien, 1959. On the one hand there is the tradition of Pythagoras and the Eleatics, on the other Ionian physical speculation. The result is, interestingly, the acceptance of sphericity, and of a ball as the model for the universe ( surely means "like the mass of a wellrounded ball" not "like the mass of a wellrounded sphere" and is not to be taken as a verbal attempt to escape spatial extension: DK 28 B 8, 43), but the rejection of motion.