Heraclitus thought that
most people were ignorant about the world around them. The senses,
however, did not cause this ignorance. Many philosophers have been
skeptical of the information given to us by the senses, but Heraclitus
did not share this skeptism. "Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to
men who have barbarian souls"(B107).
The testimony of the senses is valid, but men do not understand this information:
they do not "speak the same language" as the λόγος.
Thus, all the information information that the senses give them sounds
like gibberish. "Hearing they do not understand, like the deaf" (B34).
