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  • adjective Of or relating to Pyrrhonism.

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Examples

  • These exaggerated claims appear to be a feature of Academic rather than Pyrrhonic

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • Pyrrhonic tropes and an attack on Stoic epistemology.

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • “Academic” and “Pyrrhonic” skepticism were indistinguishable.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

  • Cartesian and Pyrrhonic attacks on historical knowledge had a vivifying effect when they were carried over into mythic study, a new bold spirit of inquiry.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • It also had a place in pre-Pyrrhonic philosophy; see De Lacy, Phronesis,

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • After Timon the Pyrrhonic School went into eclipse; but meanwhile the Platonic Academy, under Arcesilaus of Pitane, turned to skepticism.

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • In its final phase Pyrrhonic Skepticism became closely allied with empirical medicine, a connection that may well have begun as early as the third century

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • Pyrrhonic philosophy, his Benedictine erudition, his gentle wit and most humane irony into such an unpromising and opaque vessel.

    Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Pyrrhonic suspension of judgment were clear to him too; according to the frame of mind in which he wrote, you might fancy him an agnostic, again an akosmist, sometimes both, but always the ethical result is the same.

    Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889

  • Maître Pierre Maurice, being the Pope's secretary, was debarred from openly professing the Pyrrhonic philosophy.

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

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