Pyrrhonist

But since these comments postdate the rise of the later Pyrrhonist movement, there is often room for suspicion as to whether they reflect genuine information about Pyrrho himself, as opposed to the later philosophy that took his name.

Picnic 2009

However, there is no good reason to believe that a Pyrrhonist

Picnic 2009

Nevertheless, it looks as if the early or proto-Pyrrhonist answer to the question of how one acts and makes decisions is that one does so in light of the way things appear to one.

Picnic 2009

These opinions do not constitute a skeptical epistemology of the sort found in Montaigne's “Apology for Raymond Sebond” or in the more systematic and more openly Pyrrhonist (but far less influential) treatise Quod nihil scitur/That Nothing Is Known (1581) by Francisco Sanches, the son of Portuguese conversos who was reared and educated in France and taught in the medical faculty at Toulouse.

Loss of Faith 2009

Aristocles speaks of Aenesidemus as recent, and is apparently not aware of any subsequent members of the Pyrrhonist tradition.

Picnic 2009

Perhaps the central question about Pyrrho is whether or to what extent he himself was a sceptic in the later Pyrrhonist mold.

Picnic 2009

Among these Aristocles counts Pyrrhonism, as represented by Pyrrho himself and by the initiator of the later Pyrrhonist tradition, Aenesidemus;

Picnic 2009

Sextus may agree with Pyrrho that such debates are interminable, but they have an important role in later Pyrrhonist practice nonetheless.

Picnic 2009

Aenesidemus 'eight books of Pyrrhonian Arguments propounded the view that “the Pyrrhonist determines nothing, not even this, that he determines nothing” (ibid.).

Ancient Skepticism Groarke, Leo 2008

Erasmus knew of Pyrrhonist skepticism only at second hand, through ancient handbooks and summaries, but he knew the Academic type, which did not stop with suspension of judgment but sought to determine degrees of probability, very well, since he was thoroughly familiar with the writings of Cicero.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008