Now, in the Canon, Epicurus says that the criteria of truth are the senses, and the preconceptions, and the passions. But the Epicureans, in general, add also the perceptive impressions of the intellect. And he says the same thing in his Abridgment, which he addresses to Herodotus, and also in his Fundamental Principles. For, says he, the senses are devoid of reason, nor are they capable of receiving any impressions of memory. For they are not by themselves the cause of any motion, and when they have received any impression from any external cause, then they can add nothing to it, nor can they subtract anything from it. Moreover, they are out of the reach of any control; for one sensation cannot judge of another which resembles itself; for they have all an equal value. ... The Epicureans call opinion (δόξα) also supposition (ὑπόληψις). And say that it is at times true, and at times false; for that, if it is supported by testimony, and not contradicted by testimony, then it is true; but if it is not supported by testimony, and is contradicted by testimony, then it is false. On which account they have introduced the expression of “waiting,” as if, before pronouncing that a thing seen is a tower, we must wait till we come near, and learn what it looks like when we are near it. — Diogenes Laertius, *Lives of Eminent Philosophers*, Book X, Sections XX & XXII, trans. C. D. Yonge (1853). **Surface Gloss:** Diogenes summarizes Epicurus's *Canon*: the senses are non-rational, passive receivers that never lie because they cannot add to or subtract from external impressions; falsehood enters only through premature opinion before "waiting" for close-range sensory verification. **The Epimone ("Tower-Waiting") Protocol:** Separate raw telemetry from the narrative overlay. Your initial data feed (what the customer actually clicked, what the sensor actually logged, what the person literally said) is "non-rational" and cannot lie about its own occurrence; error lives entirely in the *hypolepsis*—the story you bolt onto the signal from a distance. Institute a mandatory "waiting" gate: forbid yourself or your team from naming the "tower" until you have closed the distance to high-resolution, near-field verification.
— In our words · Source: Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius)