By far the most detailed surviving examination by any ancient Greek sceptic of epistemology and logic, this work critically reviews the pretensions of non-sceptical philosophers, to have discovered methods for determining the truth, either through direct observation or by inference from the observed to the unobserved. A fine example of the Pyrrhonist sceptical method at work, it also provides extensive information about the ideas of other Greek thinkers, which in many instances, are poorly preserved in other sources.
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Sextus Empiricus' Against the Logicians is a prime example of the ancient Greek sceptical method at work. It addresses a perennial question in philosophy--the question of how we can know things--by critically examining the pretensions of non-sceptical philosophers to be able to answer this question. This volume presents the text in a new and accurate translation, together with a detailed introduction that sets the work in its philosophical context.
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Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University.
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(1) The general character of the skeptical ability has been indicated with the appropriate treatment, sketched out in part directly and in part by means of a division of the philosophies close to it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
apprehensive appearance, recollective sign, generic demonstration, argument against demonstration, unclear things, sound conditional, apparent things, differentiated proposition, skeptical procedure, persuasive appearance, finishes with the conclusion, plain experience, something intractable, perceptible things, reciprocal mode, demonstrative reference, indicative sign, against the logicians, specific demonstration, being demonstration, ethical part, dogmatic philosophers, conclusive reasoning, intelligible things, thing that appears New!
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apprehensive appearance, recollective sign, generic demonstration, argument against demonstration, unclear things, sound conditional, apparent things, differentiated proposition, skeptical procedure, persuasive appearance, finishes with the conclusion, plain experience, something intractable, perceptible things, reciprocal mode, demonstrative reference, indicative sign, against the logicians, specific demonstration, being demonstration, ethical part, dogmatic philosophers, conclusive reasoning, intelligible things, thing that appears New!
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- Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy by Richard Bett in Front Matter, and page 69
- The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Brad Inwood in Front Matter, and page 107
- The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol. 1: Translations of the Principal Sources, with Philosophical Commentary by A. A. Long in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy by Jacques Brunschwig in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy by Keimpe Algra in Front Matter, and page 141
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