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单词 Pyrrhonism
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Definition of Pyrrhonism in English:

Pyrrhonism

noun ˈpɪrənɪz(ə)mˈpɪrəˌnɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1The philosophy of Pyrrho.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
    • Rather than accepting life and its givens at face value, he refers to his Pyrrhonism, or skepticism, about the ways of the world.
    • According to Pyrrhonism, there are no finite truths in the world.
    • The Greeks, however, found no problem in interpreting Pyrrhonism in Greek terms.
    • Sextus is a key source of our knowledge of Pyrrhonism and is also said to have been a physician.
    1. 1.1 Philosophic doubt; scepticism.
      the numbing Pyrrhonism of deconstructionism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead, Hume recommends a more moderate or Academic scepticism that tempers Pyrrhonism.
      • Bayle's Pyrrhonism attacked the concepts of space, morality and rational theology as well.
      Synonyms
      doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, a pinch of salt, lack of conviction

Derivatives

  • Pyrrhonist

  • adjective & noun ˈpɪrənɪstˈpɪrənəst
    • The Pyrrhonists sought the truth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their type of skepticism about what is good or bad by nature allowed Pyrrhonists to choose and avoid things according to habit and custom.
      • Unlike the Pyrrhonists, however, whose aim is to sustain antinomies, Bayle tries to resolve them.
      • I don't aim to teach my students the complete, unvarnished skepticism that the Pyrrhonists advocated.
      • In fact, this is how the Pyrrhonists treated all sceptical arguments.
 
 

Definition of Pyrrhonism in US English:

Pyrrhonism

nounˈpɪrəˌnɪzəmˈpirəˌnizəm
  • 1The philosophy of Pyrrho.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
    • The Greeks, however, found no problem in interpreting Pyrrhonism in Greek terms.
    • Rather than accepting life and its givens at face value, he refers to his Pyrrhonism, or skepticism, about the ways of the world.
    • According to Pyrrhonism, there are no finite truths in the world.
    • Sextus is a key source of our knowledge of Pyrrhonism and is also said to have been a physician.
    1. 1.1 Philosophic doubt; skepticism.
      the numbing Pyrrhonism of deconstructionism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead, Hume recommends a more moderate or Academic scepticism that tempers Pyrrhonism.
      • Bayle's Pyrrhonism attacked the concepts of space, morality and rational theology as well.
      Synonyms
      doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, a pinch of salt, lack of conviction
 
 
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