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

The ten Tropes are empirical, and aim to furnish objective proofs of the foundation theories of Pyrrhonism, while the five are rather rules of thought leading to logical proof, and are dialectic in their character.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills

Coming now to the relation of Pyrrhonism to the Academy, the connection between the two is difficult to exactly determine, between the time of Pyrrho and that of Aenesidemus.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills

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)

Pyrrhonism is now the fashion above everything else.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)