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."
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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
It was a question much discussed among philosophers in ancient times, whether Pyrrhonism should be considered a philosophical sect or not.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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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