Arcesilaus
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Arcesilaus founded his on dialectic, while Pyrrho's was empirical.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills
He studied grammar under Callimachus at Alexandria, and philosophy under the Stoic Ariston and the Academic Arcesilaus at Athens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
The philosophical enmity of the two contemporaries, Timon and Arcesilaus, the Academician who had most in common with Pyrrhonism, is an expression of the fundamental incompatibility between the two schools.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills
Arcesilaus attacked especially their doctrine of the criterion of truth.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
Arcesilaus, it seems, would neither assent to anything nor opine.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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