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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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
This influence was felt later, as Pyrrhonism became better known.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills
They have a much closer connection with the spirit of Scepticism than the Tropes of Agrippa, including, as they do, the fundamental thought of Pyrrhonism, i.e., that the phenomena do not reveal the unknown.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills
The truth is to be found neither in dogmatism nor in Pyrrhonism, both of which Pascal combated with equal vigour.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
It leads to Pyrrhonism in science and philosophy, and indifferentism in religion.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
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