Critics ancient and modern have charged that suspending judgment on all matters makes purposeful action impossible; Sextus Empiricus answered that skeptics act by following appearances, but scholars remain divided on whether that answer itself smuggles in belief, and interpretation of Sextus's own position is, in the Stanford Encyclopedia's own words, quite controversial.
What would resolve this A consensus reading of Sextus Empiricus's account of following appearances that scholars agree either does or does not amount to holding beliefs, which decades of interpretive work have not settled.
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