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  • Often coupled with epochē is akatalepsia, i.e., “nonapprehension,” which probably derives from the Academic attack on the Stoic theory of apprehension (katalepsis; cf.Ac. II. 17-18, 31).

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • Photius, III, 119-20; PH I. 229-30); and indeed in this they had the support of Galen, who took Carneadean probability to be equivalent to Stoic apprehension (katalepsis) and to the formula, which

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

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