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Pyrrhonism

1994
Abstract The central thesis of Part 2 of this study is that no justificatory theory seems to show any prospects of solving the Agrippa problem. Does this show that there is no fact of the matter in knowing? At restricted levels of scrutiny, there are facts of the matter in knowing.
Robert J Fogelin, Fogelin Robert J
exaly   +2 more sources

Wittgenstein and Pyrrhonism

2004
Abstract This essay traces the roots of Wittgenstein’s Pyrrhonism to Mauthner, and argues that Wittgenstein’s later views moved even closer to those of Mauthner, although Wittgenstein never became as thoroughgoing a Pyrrhonian as Mauthner had been.
Hans Sluga
exaly   +2 more sources

Historical Reflections on Classical Pyrrhonism and Neo‐Pyrrhonism

2004
Abstract This essay argues that ancient Pyrrhonists did not decide to suspend judgment, but rather claimed to have found themselves unable to arrive at any judgment. By giving up the attempt, they also claimed to have unexpectedly reached tranquility, then followed the customs of ordinary life without ever claiming to have found the ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Classy Pyrrhonism

2004
Abstract This essay invokes a technical framework of contrast classes within which Pyrrhonians can accept (or deny) knowledge claims that are relativized to specific contrast classes, but avoid all unrelativized knowledge claims and all presuppositions about which contrast classes are really relevant.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
exaly   +2 more sources

Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism

History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 1999
Prima facie, the sceptical procedure described in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism I is committed to a gap between appearance and reality, that is, to the possibility that reality is other than it appears. But the Pyrrhonist is keen to avoid having commitments. In this paper, we consider whether the Pyrrhonist is indeed so committed; what, more
Harte, Verity, Lane, Melissa
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