Aenesidemus
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Pyrrhonism, or Pyrrhonian skepticism, was a school of skepticism founded by Aenesidemus in the first century BC and recorded by Sextus Empiricus in the late 2nd century or early 3rd century AD. It was named after Pyrrho, a philosopher who lived from c. 360 to c. 270 BC, although the relationship between the philosophy of the school and of the historical figure is murky. A renaissance of the term is to be noted for the 17th century when the modern scientific worldview was born.
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See also
- Aenesidemus
- Agrippa the Skeptic
- Apophasis
- Apophatic theology
- Arcesilaus
- Quietism
- Epoche
- Sextus Empiricus
- Timon
- Benson Mates
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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