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Pyrrhonism /ˈpɪrənɪz(ə)m /noun [mass noun]1The philosophy of Pyrrho.Sextus is a key source of our knowledge of Pyrrhonism and is also said to have been a physician....- The Greeks, however, found no problem in interpreting Pyrrhonism in Greek terms.
- The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
1.1Philosophic doubt; scepticism: the numbing Pyrrhonism of deconstructionism...- Bayle's Pyrrhonism attacked the concepts of space, morality and rational theology as well.
- Instead, Hume recommends a more moderate or Academic scepticism that tempers Pyrrhonism.
DerivativesPyrrhonist /ˈpɪrənɪst/ noun & adjective ...- In fact, this is how the Pyrrhonists treated all sceptical arguments.
- Their type of skepticism about what is good or bad by nature allowed Pyrrhonists to choose and avoid things according to habit and custom.
- The Pyrrhonists sought the truth.
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