Cleanthes

rceive by looking at the tree. I may come up with
             several theories, one of which may happen to be the correct one, but with no prior
             experience on which to base these guesses, I would have no way of knowing which theory
             was correct. Philo objects to the use of only human intelligence as the benchmark by
             which to measure the order of the universe. Nature is also an example of a great wealth of
             order and arrangement that coexists with the human mind in the universe. He believes that
             by comparing the order that is present in the universe, being the whole, to the order that
             appears in the parts, being the human mind and nature,
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