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( 1 ) Since there are two different kinds of starting-points of scientific demon-
strations (for every demonstration and argument starts from either percep-
tion or clear insight), it is necessary for us, too, to use either one of these or
both for the purpose of judging the present problem. ( 2 ) Now, judgements
through reason are not equally easy for all people, since one has to be in-
telligent by nature and to be trained during youth in the disciplines that
sharpen reasoning. Therefore, it is better to start from experience, espe-
cially so because many doctors have declared that it is through experience
only that the powers of food have been discovered. ( 3 ) Now, one might
perhaps despise the Empiricists, who have taken great pains over argu-
ing contentiously against the things which are discovered through reason;
( 4 ) however, Diocles, though being a Dogmatist, in the first book of his
‘Matters of Health to Pleistarchus’ writes the following, and I quote:
( 5 ) ‘Those, then, who suppose that [substances] that have similar flavours
or smells or [degrees of ] hotness or some other [quality] of this kind all
