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
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 Auguste Sabatier
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 Mary Mills Patrick
We shall now proceed to the consideration of the general position and aim of Pyrrhonism.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
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
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