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."
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Sextus naturally warmly combats this tendency, as he wishes to preserve Pyrrhonism pure.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
Pyrrhonism is now the fashion above everything else.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
The character of the extant works of Sextus is similar, as they are all directed either against science or against the dogmatics, and they all present the negative side of Pyrrhonism.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
Pappenheim accordingly concludes that the seat of Pyrrhonism after the school was removed from Alexandria, was in some unknown city of the East.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
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