Pyrrhonism

American  

[pir-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈpɪr əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.

2. extreme or absolute skepticism.

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Other Word Forms

• Pyrrhonist noun
• Pyrrhonistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pyrrhonism

1660–70; < Greek Pýrrhōn Pyrrho + -ism

Example Sentences

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

It leads to Pyrrhonism in science and philosophy, and indifferentism in religion.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

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

As the skepticism of the Sophists marked the close of the first period of philosophy, 424 so the skepticism of Pyrrhonism marked the close of the second.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

All writers on Pyrrhonism after the time of Aenesidemus give the Tropes the principal place in their treatment of the subject.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills