Meaning of Pyrrhonism | Babel Free

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The system of skeptical philosophy established by Pyrrho of Elis, centred on the idea that nothing can be known for certain; widespread skepticism, universal doubt.

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“Whosoever shall imagine⟳ a perpetuall confession of ignorance, and a judgement upright and without staggering, to what occasion soever may chance; That man conceives the true Phyrrhonisme.”

“The continuing impact on Jefferson of Reid's antiskepticism and that of his followers is clear in a statement he made to John Adams in 1820: "Rejecting all organs of information, therefore, but my senses, I rid⟳ myself of the pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical, so uselessly occupy⟳ and disquiet the mind⟳ .”

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