Pyrrhonism
Americannoun
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the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
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extreme or absolute skepticism.
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Origin of Pyrrhonism
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At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players."
From Time Magazine Archive
That Pyrrhonism received some attention in Rome before the time of Sextus is nevertheless demonstrated by the teachings of Favorinus there.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
By sheer reasonableness we are reduced to a state of pure Pyrrhonism, where, like the poor donkey, we must die of starvation midway between two equally large and equally appetizing bundles of hay.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
From all of these things we may infer a narrowing of the limits of Pyrrhonism in the time of Sextus.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
In India, also, Buddhism, as soon as it became a popular religion, had to speak a more human language than that of metaphysical Pyrrhonism.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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