Five modes of scepticism : Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan modes /

Stefan Sienkiewicz analyses five argument forms which are central to Pyrrhonian scepticism, as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. In particular, Sienkiewicz distinguishes between two different perspectives of the sceptic and his dogmatic opponent, and interprets the five modes of sceptic...

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Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan modes
The Mode of Disagreement
Some Features of Disagreement
Kinds of Disagreement
Is the Sceptic Part of the Disagreement?
Disagreement and Undecided Disagreement
Principles of Disagreement
Two Accounts of the Sorts of Beliefs a Sceptic Can Hold
A Dogmatic Mode of Disagreement
The Method of Equipollence
A Sceptical Mode of Disagreement
Chronicling Disagreement and Creating Disagreement
The Mode of Hypothesis
When the Mode of Hypothesis Occurs
What Hypothesizing Is Not
What Hypothesizing Is
The Function of Hypothesizing
Three Modes of Hypothesis
A Sceptical Mode of Hypothesis
The Mode of Hypothesis as a Limiting Case of the Method of Equipollence
The Mode of Infinite Regression
Infinity Introduced
The Unacceptability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments
The Unsurveyability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments
Infinite Regression and the Suspension of Judgement
A Dogmatic Mode of Infinite Regression
A Sceptical Mode of Infinite Regression
The Mode of Reciprocity
Reciprocity Parallel to Infinite Regression
Formal Reciprocity
Regressive Reciprocity
Conceptual Reciprocity
The Unacceptability of Reciprocal Arguments
Two Kinds of Priority
Asymmetry and Transitivity
From Reciprocity to the Suspension of Judgement
A Dogmatic Mode of Reciprocity
A Sceptical Mode of Reciprocity
The Mode of Relativity
Modes of Relativity
The Logical Form of Sextus' Argument
Sub-Argument 1
Sub-Argument 2
Sub-Argument 3
The Nature of Sextan Relativity
The Mode of Relativity and the Other Agrippan Modes
Relativity and Disagreement
The Modes Combined
Net 1
Net 2
The Modes Recombined
Actual Disagreement, Possible Disagreement, and the Giving of Reasons
Dogmatic Nets
1. Verfasser:
Sienkiewicz, Stefan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Ausgabe:
New edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Stefan Sienkiewicz analyses five argument forms which are central to Pyrrhonian scepticism, as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. In particular, Sienkiewicz distinguishes between two different perspectives of the sceptic and his dogmatic opponent, and interprets the five modes of scepticism from both viewpoints.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-187115-X
0-19-251927-1
Schlagworte:
Sextus, > Empiricus. > Outlines of Pyrrhonism.
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