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THE SYSTEMATIC USE OF THE FIVE MODES FOR THE SUSPENSION OF JUDGEMENT
Manuscrito, 2019 The five modes are a list of tools used by ancient sceptics to guide dogmatic people towards suspending their judgement. Attributed to Agrippa (of uncertain date) and used extensively by Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd century CE), these modes are still ...
DANIEL VÁZQUEZ
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Montaigne, Estienne et l’invention de l’apparence [PDF]
, 2008 La disparition de la notion technique de species dans les Essais de Montaigne est caractéristique de la transformation qui est intervenue dans la mise en place du procès de la connaissance. La théorie de l’espèce est alors remplacée par une doctrine de l’
Paganini, Gianni
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 348-357, September 2024.Abstract My aim in this article is to elucidate the nature of a form of intellectual and practical neutrality that is not covered by existing accounts of suspension of judgment. After rejecting some inadequate characterizations of this attitude of neutrality, I provide a positive characterization of it: it is a successful effort to resist certain ...
Benoit Gaultier
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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīProtagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard +3 more
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Jules Vuillemin et la morale du pyrrhonisme
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2016 In the first part of his 1985 paper “Une morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme?”, Jules Vuillemin puts forward an interpretation of the scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis and asks whether this is compatible with an ethical life.
Lorenzo Corti
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Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]
, 2015 Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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The Evidence in Ancient Philosophy
Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, 2014 Enargeia became a technical term –to which Cicero coined the neologism evidentia for its translation– in the Hellenistic Epistemology, so it seems, beginning from Epicurus.
Javier AOIZ
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Can an ancient Greek sceptic be eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer make to us?
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2012 The paper explores how far the ancient Greek sceptics in fact accept, and how far they should accept, the central Greek ethical notion of eudaimonia, usually translated "happiness" - and what, if anything, the answers may tell us today. The first section
Richard Bett
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