Pyrrhonist
- a word derived from Pyrrho.
- a word derived from Pyrrhonism.
Example Sentences
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He is so far from being a Pyrrhonist in the sense of resting on Pyrrhonism, that he seeks to mount on its shoulders to a higher truth.
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Ordinarily one does not learn things about oneself from Edmund Gosse, but my discovery that I am a Pyrrhonist is due to that literary man.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
Although no Pyrrhonist in thought, he knows too well in experience the depths of Pyrrhonism.
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
If Pascal is Pyrrhonist, he is certainly not Pyrrhonist after the manner of Montaigne, deeply as he responds to many of the notes of the Essays, and at times seems to make them his own.
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Nature confounds the Pyrrhonist, and reason the Dogmatist;”— or, as the passage was originally written,— “We cannot be Pyrrhonists without violating nature; we cannot be Dogmatists without renouncing nature.”
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
