Sextus Empiricus, who flourished in the mid to late second century CE, was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician holding Roman citizenship, whose philosophical works are the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman Pyrrhonism and, through the arguments they contain against other Hellenistic philosophies, also a major source of information about those rival schools.
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Defining MomentSourced to the subject's own accountAuthor of the most complete surviving systematic exposition of ancient Greek Skepticism. 1 Notable PublicationSourced to the subject's own accountOutlines of Pyrrhonism; Against the Dogmatists; Against the Professors 1 Office HeldSourced to the subject's own accountPhysician of the Empiric school of medicine 1 TraditionSourced to the subject's own accountPyrrhonism (Greek Skepticism) 1 Classification
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
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a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician
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Sextus Empiricus ... was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician with Roman citizenship.
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His philosophical works are the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman Pyrrhonism
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Sextus Empiricus (c. 160, c. 210) was a Greek philosopher of the Ancient era, associated with Skepticism, Hellenistic, and Ancient Greek Philosophy.
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It is also known as Agrippa's trilemma or the Agrippan trilemma after a similar argument reported by Sextus Empiricus, which was attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic by Diogenes Laërtius.
Problem of the Criterion (Wikipedia)
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In Western philosophy, the earliest surviving documentation of the problem of the criterion is in the works of the Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus.
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