  Unlike modern philosophers, Aristotle does not attack the inference from premises 1 and 2 to the conclusions in 3. Instead, he attacks premise 2. If the attack is successful, he will have knocked down all three conclusions at the same time. Aristotle’s attack on premise 2 does not rest on accepting a majority verdict. Aristotle appears to accept his opponents’ argument that, in cases like 1a, where things appear different to different members of the same species, majority decision is not an appropriate criterion for truth, because if the majority were ill or mad, the minority would be thought to be in that condition. He argues instead that people are not really confused as to whether magnitudes and colors are such as appear to those at a distance or those nearby, or whether what appears to the weak or strong is heavier or whether what appears to one asleep or awake is true. Once awake, a person in Libya is not confused about whether his dreams of Athens or his waking experiences are true; he does not start out for the odeon. Therefore, according to Aristotle, people do not really find it unclear which appearances to take as true.