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Philo Phy

The document discusses skepticism about the possibility of knowledge that arose from arguments found in Sextus Empiricus's book Outlines of Pyrrhonism. These arguments pointed out that people disagree and senses are unreliable, challenging the idea that truth can be discovered and asking how it could be judged.

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Philo Phy

The document discusses skepticism about the possibility of knowledge that arose from arguments found in Sextus Empiricus's book Outlines of Pyrrhonism. These arguments pointed out that people disagree and senses are unreliable, challenging the idea that truth can be discovered and asking how it could be judged.

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Philosophy of the Social Sciences

In the background to his questions was a contemporary debate


that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered. In the background to his questions
was a contemporary debate
that arose from a large number of arguments against the very possi-
bility of knowledge, arguments that were found in an account of
early Greek skepticism, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, written by Sextus
Empiricus (fl. A.D. 200). Pointing out that people disagree, these ar-
guments challenge anyone who thinks the truth can be found to say
who is its proper judge or real discoverer. Pointing out that our
senses are unreliable and our reasonings often mistaken, they ask
by what means truth is to be discovered.

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