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    least twice in his writings, Sextus seems to place himself closer to the Methodic school. As a skeptic, Sextus Empiricus raised concerns which applied...
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  • and Sextus Empiricus may be one and the same) Sextus Empiricus (he and Sextus of Chaeronea may be one and the same) Sextus Julius Frontinus Sextus Martinianus...
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  • the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, writing in the late second century or early third century CE. The publication of Sextus' works in the Renaissance...
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  • ataraxia (freedom from worry and anxiety). The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus gives this definition: "Epoché is a state of the intellect on account...
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  • induce epoche. The works of Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE) are the main surviving account of ancient Pyrrhonism. Long before Sextus' time, the Academy had abandoned...
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    be determined, starting with the opening lines, which are quoted by Sextus Empiricus: Of the logos being forever do men prove to be uncomprehending, both...
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  • Robert Gregg (1933). Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993013. Empiricus, Sextus; Annas, Julia; Barnes...
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  • September 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016. Sextus Empiricus, 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', I. 13. Sextus Empiricus, 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', I. 14. Blackburn...
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    terms. Far predating this, the ancient Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus also used phenomenon and noumenon as interrelated technical terms....
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  • neither is nor is not. With respect to aretē, the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus said: If one defines a system as an attachment to a number of dogmas...
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  • Photius from the 9th century, as well as a few mentions in the works of Sextus Empiricus, and to a lesser extent by Diogenes Laërtius. Whether Aenesidemus re-founded...
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    been useful to the chicken. The works of the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus contain the oldest surviving questioning of the validity of inductive...
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    Paschale. A12. Strabo. Geographia. Book VI, §1. Empiricus, Sextus; Empírico, Sexto (1933). Sextus Empiricus in four volumes: Against the logicians. Vol....
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  • successful sophists of his era; however, some later philosophers, such as Sextus Empiricus treat him as a founder of a philosophy rather than as a sophist. Protagoras...
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    1925, § 10–12. Cicero, Academica, ii. 20. Cicero, de Finibus, iv. 4. Sextus Empiricus, adv. Math. vii. 253. Cicero, Academica, ii. 6, 24. Cicero, Academica...
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    hostile but largely accurate accounts by the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus, and the Academic Skeptic and statesman Cicero. Epicurus asserted that...
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    because he too rejected the true, the false, and the persuasive." Sextus Empiricus said that Arcesilaus' philosophy appeared essentially the same as Pyrrhonism...
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    reasoning among his Five Tropes of Agrippa. The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus described the problem of circular reasoning as "the reciprocal trope":...
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  • is in the works of the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus. In Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus demonstrated that no criterion of truth had been...
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    On Doubtful Syllables. 296.6. B11. Sextus Empiricus. Against the Physicists. Book I.193. B12. Sextus Empiricus. Against the Grammarians. Book I.289...
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    The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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    Johansen & Rosenmeier 1998, p. 467 Sextus Empiricus, Pyr. Hyp. ii. 110–112; Adv. Math. viii. 112–117 Sextus Empiricus, Pyr. Hyp., ii. 110–112 See Gould...
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    Cambridge Companion to Stoics, ed. B. Inwood, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 206–232 Sextus Empiricus, Adversus Mathematicos 10.218. (chronos, topos, kenon, lekton) Marcelo...
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    identifies Sextus of Chaeronea as being a student of Herodotus of Tarsus and being the same person as Sextus Empiricus, in which case Sextus would be a...
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    Horace Ars Poetica Frag. B17 (Simplicius, Physics, 157–159) Frag. B6 (Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, x, 315) Plato, Timaeus, 48b–c Frag. B35...
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  • Grayling 2019, p. 112. Grayling 2019, p. 114. Sextus Empiricus, "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" I.33.232 Sextus Empiricus, "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" I.33.225–231  This...
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    Satyricon. Trans. William Arrowsmith. New York: A Meridian Book, 1987. Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 AD). Adversus Mathematicos. Bakalis, Nikolaos (2005). Handbook...
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  • (epoché). Agrippa's arguments form the basis of the Agrippan trilemma. Sextus Empiricus described these "modes" or "tropes" in Outlines of Pyrrhonism, attributing...
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    this trilemma appears in the writings of the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus. Epikoros is a Jewish term figuratively meaning "a heretic", cited...
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    skeptic Cicero in De Divinatione (1st century BCE) and the Pyrrhonist Sextus Empiricus in Against the Astrologers (2nd century CE). The satirist Lucian (c...
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